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Supply   /səplˈaɪ/   Listen
Supply

noun
(pl. supplies)
1.
An amount of something available for use.
2.
Offering goods and services for sale.
3.
The activity of supplying or providing something.  Synonyms: provision, supplying.
verb
(past & past part. supplied; pres. part. supplying)
1.
Give something useful or necessary to.  Synonyms: furnish, provide, render.
2.
Circulate or distribute or equip with.  Synonym: issue.  "Supply blankets for the beds"
3.
Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.  Synonyms: cater, ply, provide.
4.
State or say further.  Synonyms: add, append.



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"Supply" Quotes from Famous Books



... of nine thousand men was really a landing party from Saunders' big fleet, which included nearly fifty men-of-war (almost a quarter of the whole Royal Navy) and well over two hundred transports and supply ships. The bluejackets on board the men-of-war and the merchant seamen on board the other ships each greatly outnumbered the men in Wolfe's army. In fact, the whole expedition was made up of three-quarters sea-power and only ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood
... if one runs on in the old groove? We must prevent the market from being drugged, by diverting the supply into new lines." ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... deserves better usage than a bad critic."—Pope (or Johnson) cor. "Produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, governor of this state."—Jefferson's Notes, p. 94. "We have none synonymous to supply its place."—Jamieson cor. "There is a probability that the effect will be accelerated."—Id. "Nay, a regard to sound has controlled the public choice."—Id. "Though learnt [better, learned] from the uninterrupted ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... her tongue, and keepin' her oar out, and findin' him—if by good luck she'd got it by her—a specimen of the handwritin' of the clever scoundrel who'd played at bein' a War Intelligence Agent, and waltzed with her five hundred pounds, which sample, as it chanced, she was able to supply. And the fist of the man who'd swindled her, and the writin' of the Mrs. Casey who'd sent a letter per despatch-runner from Diamond Town to a husband who didn't exist, tallied to an upstroke and ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... went very carefully through our provision supply before discussing the future. The result was that we had food enough for ourselves and the dogs for eighteen days. The surviving sixteen dogs were divided into two teams of eight each, and the contents of Bjaaland's sledge were shared between ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen


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