supply

  • verb (supplies, supplied) 1 make (something needed) available to someone. 2 provide with something needed. 3 be adequate to satisfy (a requirement or demand).

  • noun (pl. supplies) 1 a stock or amount of something supplied or available. 2 the action of supplying. 3 (supplies) provisions and equipment necessary for an army or expedition. 4 before another noun acting as a temporary substitute for another: a supply teacher.

  — PHRASES supply and demand the amount of goods or services available and the desire of buyers for them, considered as factors regulating its price.

  — DERIVATIVES supplier noun.

  — ORIGIN Latin supplere ‘fill up’.

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