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- [suh-plahy]
- /səˈplaɪ/
- /səˈplaɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [suh-plahy]
- /səˈplaɪ/
Definitions of supply word
- verb with object supply to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity. 1
- verb with object supply to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite): to supply electricity to a community. 1
- verb with object supply to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.): The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity. 1
- verb with object supply to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit. 1
- verb without object supply to fill the place of another, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives? 1
- noun plural supply the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help. 1
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Origin of supply
First appearance:
before 1325 One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; (v.) Middle English sup(p)lien < Middle French souplier, variant of soupleer ≪ Latin supplēre to fill up, equivalent to sup- sup- + plēre to fill (see full1); (noun) late Middle English: aid, succor, derivative of the v.
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Parts of speech for Supply
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
supply popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
supply usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for supply
verb supply
- accommodate — If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them.
- accouter — to outfit; equip, esp. for military service
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
noun supply
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
- aplenty — If you have something aplenty, you have a lot of it.
- array — An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
- arsenal — An arsenal is a large collection of weapons and military equipment held by a country, group, or person.
- backlog — A backlog is a number of things which have not yet been done but which need to be done.
adj supply
- band-aid — A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- make do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- make-do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
Antonyms for supply
verb supply
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- deprive — If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
noun supply
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- divestment — the act of divesting.
- famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
- inanition — exhaustion from lack of nourishment; starvation.
Top questions with supply
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