1. To make available for use; provide. 2. To furnish or equip with: supplied sheets for every bed.3. To fill sufficiently; satisfy: supply a need.4. To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for. 5. To serve temporarily as a substitute in (a church, for example).
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To fill a position as a substitute.
NOUN:
Inflected forms: pl. sup·plies 1. The act of supplying. 2. Something that is or can be supplied. 3. An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock. 4. Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed. Often used in the plural. 5.Economics The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price. 6. A cleric serving as a substitute or temporary pastor.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English supplien, to help, complete, furnish with additional troops, from Old French soupleer, to fill up, from Latin supplre : sub-, from below; see sub– + plre, to fill; see pel-1 in Appendix I.
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