'Supplies' definitions:
Definition of 'Supplies'
From: GCIDE
- Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. Supplies.
- 1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies. [1913 Webster] (c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. [1913 Webster] (d) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit. [1913 Webster]
- Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [U.S.]
- Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) "Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price." --F. A. Walker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'supplies'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- accumulation,
- amassment,
- backlog,
- budget,
- canned foods,
- collection,
- commissariat,
- commissary,
- cornucopia,
- cumulation,
- dehydrated foods,
- dump,
- food supply,
- fresh foods,
- frozen foods,
- groceries,
- grocery,
- heap,
- hoard,
- inventory,
- larder,
- mass,
- material,
- materials,
- materiel,
- merchandise,
- munitions,
- pile,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- provender,
- provisionment,
- provisions,
- rations,
- repertoire,
- repertory,
- rick,
- stack,
- stock,
- stock-in-trade,
- stockpile,
- store,
- stores,
- supply on hand,
- treasure,
- treasury
Words containing 'Supplies'
- Supplied,
- Supply,
- Supplying,
- Fort Supply,
- Stated supply,
- Supply and demand,
- Supply system,
- Water supply,
- in short supply,
- money supply,
- supply chamber,
- supply closet,
- supply depot,
- supply line,
- supply officer,
- supply route,
- supply ship,
- Fort Supply, OK,
- Switching power supply,
- building supply house,
- building supply store,
- supply-side economics