Supply

Quick meaning: Supply is a verb meaning (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

Meaning

(transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
2. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
3. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
4. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
5. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
6. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
7. (uncountable) The act of supplying.

Example Sentences

to supply a pulpit

to supply money for the war

Burning ships the banished sun supply.

Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

Word Forms

• supplies
• supplying
• supplied
• supplely

Synonyms for supply

Depending on context, synonyms include provision, fulfill, render, issue, provide, append.

Antonyms for supply

Common opposites include demand, recall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include providing, provision, provide, furnish, render, add.

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