Definition of
Supply
- (noun, act) the activity of supplying or providing something
- (noun, process) offering goods and services for sale
- (noun, quantity) an amount of something available for use
- (verb, communication) state or say further
- (verb, consumption) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- (verb, possession) give something useful or necessary to
- (verb, social) circulate or distribute or equip with
supply blankets for the beds
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Antonyms of Supply
Alternate forms of Supply
Derivations: supplier, supply, supplying
Hyponyms: accommodate, afford, air-condition, air-cool, alimentation, alphabetize, arm, articulate, bed, berth, bewhisker, board, border, bottom, brattice, bush, buy in, calk, canal, canalise, canalize, capitalise, capitalize, caption, care delivery, cater, causeway, charge, cleat, cloy, coal, computerise, computerize, constitutionalize, copper-bottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, curtain, dado, date, dish, dish out, dish up, drench, edge, equip, extend, feed, feeding, fill, fire, fit, fit out, fix up, flood, free, fret, fuel, fueling, fulfil, fulfill, fund, furnish, gate, give, glass, glaze, glut, grate, gratify, gutter, hat, headline, headquarter, health care delivery, healthcare delivery, heat, help, hobnail, horse, hydrate, index, indulge, innervate, insert, interleave, irrigation, issuance, issue, issuing, joint, kern, key, leverage, logistics, machicolate, match, meet, nourish, nurture, offer, outfit, oversupply, pander, partner, patch, pimp, pour, power, procure, provision, pump, purvey, purveyance, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reflectorise, reflectorize, refueling, regale, reissue, release, reservoir, retrofit, rim, sanitate, satisfy, scant, seat, serve, serve up, shelter, shower, signalise, signalize, skimp, slat, slip in, sneak in, staff, step, stick in, stint, stock, stock up, stocking, subtitle, subvention, surfeit, sustain, tap, terrace, terrasse, theme, ticket, toggle, tool, top, top out, toss in, transistorise, transistorize, treat, tube, unblock, underlay, unfreeze, uniform, upholster, victual, water, wharf, whisker, wive, yield
Hypernyms: activity, distribute, economic process, give, indefinite quantity, say, state, tell
Origin of the word Supply
- late 14c., "to help, support, maintain," also "fill up, make up for," from O.Fr. supplier "fill up, make full," from L. supplere "fill up, complete," from sub "up from below" + plere "to fill" (see plenary). The meaning "furnish, provide" first recorded c.1520. more
- 1423, "assistance, relief," from supply (v.). Meaning "quantity or amount of something provided" is attested from 1607. In the political economy sense (corollary of demand) it dates from 1776. Supply-side in ref. to economic policy is attested from 1976. Supplies "provisions" is from c.1650. more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Supply
sabal, sable, sackful, safely, sao paulo, save-all, saveloy, sawbill, sawfly, scapula, scofflaw, scoopful, scopal, scopolia, scuffle, scuffle hoe, seafowl, seeable, sepal, sevilla, seville, sex appeal, shabbily, shakable, shakeable, shapely, shapley, sheep bell, shockable, shoebill, shoeful, shoo fly, shoofly, shop bell, shovel, show bill, shuffle, sibyl, sizable, sizeable, skepful, ski pole, skiffle, sky-blue, soap bubble, sociable, sociably, souffle, soup bowl, sowbelly, spall, spawl, spell, spiel, spile, spill
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