<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.</li><li>to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite): to supply electricity to a community.</li><li>to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.): The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity.</li><li>to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to fill the place of another, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives?</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help.</li><li>something that is supplied: The storm cut off our water supply.</li><li>a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store: Did you see our new supply of shirts?</li><li>a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter.</li><li>the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price.</li><li>all items necessary for the equipment, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery.</li><li>a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, especially temporarily.</li></ul>