supplies
Pronunciation:
/səˈplaɪz/noun
Definitions
The act of supplying.
Example: supply and demand
An amount of something supplied.
Example: A supply of good drinking water is essential.
(in the plural) provisions.
(chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
Example: to vote supplies
verb
Definitions
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Example: to supply money for the war
To furnish or equip with.
Example: to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
To fill up, or keep full.
Example: Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.