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sup·ply  (s-pl)
v. sup·plied, sup·ply·ing, sup·plies
v.tr.
1. To make available for use; provide.
2. To furnish or equip with: supplied sheets for every bed.
3. To fill sufficiently; satisfy: supply a need.
4. To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.
5. To serve temporarily as a substitute in (a church, for example).
v.intr.
To fill a position as a substitute.
n. pl. sup·plies
1. The act of supplying.
2. Something that is or can be supplied.
3. An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock.
4. Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed. Often used in the plural.
5. Economics The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.
6. A cleric serving as a substitute or temporary pastor.

[Middle English supplien, to help, complete, furnish with additional troops, from Old French soupleer, to fill up, from Latin supplre : sub-, from below; see sub- + plre, to fill; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

sup·plier n.

In logistics, all materiel and items used in the equipment, support, and maintenance of military forces. See also assembly; component; equipment; subassembly.
Translations
supplies توريدات zásobování forsyninger Versorgungsmaterial εφόδια provisiones tarvikkeet fournitures zalihe provviste 食糧 공급품 verbruiksartikelen forsyninger zapasy abastecimentos, suprimento запасы proviant สิ่งที่จัดหาให้ erzak nhu yếu phẩm 物资


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To this rendezvous the company sends annually a convoy of supplies from its establishment on the Atlantic frontier, under the guidance of some experienced partner or officer.
For this reason the Iliad and the Odyssey each furnish the subject of one tragedy, or, at most, of two; while the Cypria supplies materials for many, and the Little Iliad for eight--the Award of the Arms, the Philoctetes, the Neoptolemus, the Eurypylus, the Mendicant Odysseus, the Laconian Women, the Fall of Ilium, the Departure of the Fleet.
Inferior posts would be established in the interior, and on all the tributary streams of the Columbia, to trade with the Indians; these posts would draw their supplies from the main establishment, and bring to it the peltries they collected.
 
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