supplies
Verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of supply
Noun
See also: suppliés- plural form of supply
supplies
Variant of supply
transitive verb
supplied, supplying- to give, furnish, or provide (what is needed or wanted): to supply tools to workers
- to meet the needs or requirements of; furnish, provide, or equip with what is needed or wanted: to supply workers with tools
- to compensate for; make good: to supply a deficiency
- to act as a substitute in; fill or serve in temporarily: to supply another's pulpit
Origin of supply
Middle English supplyen ; from Middle French supplier ; from Classical Latin supplere, to fill up ; from sub-, sub- + plere, to fill: see fullintransitive verb
to serve as a temporary substitute
noun
pl. supplies- the act of supplying
- an amount or quantity available for use; stock; store
- materials, provisions, etc. for supplying an army, expedition, a business, etc.; sometimes, specif., provisions for an army other than materiel, vehicles, etc.
- Chiefly Brit. an amount of money granted for government expenses; appropriation
- a temporary substitute, as for a minister
- Obsolete
- aid; assistance
- reinforcements
- Econ. the amount of a commodity available for purchase at a given price
adjective
- having to do with a supply or supplies
- serving as a substitute
Related Forms:
- supplier
noun
