supply
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Is supply a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of supply?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.Examples: "to supply money for the war"Synonyms: fulfilltransitive
2. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.Examples: "to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition"transitive
3. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.Examples: "Rivers are supplied by smaller streams."transitive
4. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.Examples: "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."transitive
5. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.Examples: "Burning ships the banished sun supply."; "The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky."transitive
6. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The act of supplying.Examples: "supply and demand"uncountable
2. (countable) An amount of something supplied.Examples: "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"."countable
3. (in the plural) Provisions.countablein-pluraluncountable
4. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.Examples: "to vote supplies"countablein-pluraluncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary