supply

Forms

1.To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
2.To furnish or equip with.
3.To fill up, or keep full.
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
4.To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.

1.An amount of something supplied.
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
2.The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
- The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
3.Provisions.
- They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
4.The act of supplying.

Common· #1680

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.