supply

About 68.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

   to supply money for the war

2. verb To furnish or equip with.

   to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

3. verb To fill up, or keep full.

   Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

4. verb To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
5. verb To serve instead of; to take the place of.
6. verb To act as a substitute.
7. verb To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.

   to supply a pulpit

8. noun The act of supplying.

Similar words

providing provision provide furnish render add issue append ply cater

Often followed by

of and the to is a in chain curve

Word family

supplely supplied supplier suppliers supplies supplying