supply

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

1. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
2. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
3. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Provisions.
4. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
5. (countable, uncountable) Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Adv

Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

Synonyms

provide

furnish

provision

stock

deliver

equip

reserve

delivery

give

store

render

purvey

accommodate

supplying

offer

feed

procurement

cater

replenishment

grant

issue

add

outfit

stockpile

purveyance

serve

distribute

distribution

reserves

payment

💸

administration

append

lot

supplies

allowance

procure

allow

satisfy

fund

fit

get

provisioning

arrivals

arrival

ship

🚢

ply

administer

present

make up for

accouter

Translations

fournir

liefern

versorgen

Versorgung

fornire

suprir

fornecer

abastecer

fourniture

offre

suministrar

approvisionnement

oferta

provvedere

provvista

Pronounced as (IPA)

/səˈplaɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: supplien

In summary

From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin suppleo (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.