Definition of supply
- v. t. - To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is
wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are
supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake;
-- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a
furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
- v. t. - To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- v. t. - To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another
in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as,
to supply a pulpit.
- v. t. - To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply
money for the war.
- n. - The act of supplying; supplial.
- n. - That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
or want.
- n. - Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
- n. - The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities
of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the
plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
- n. - An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress,
to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as,
to vote supplies.
- n. - A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the
place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant
pulpit.
- a. - Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of
anything; as, a supply tank or valve.