Hypertext Webster Gateway: "supplies"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. {Supplies}.
1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker.

2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
or want. Specifically:
(a) Auxiliary troops or re["e]nforcements. ``My promised
supply of horsemen.'' --Shak.
(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.
(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.
(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.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

supplies
n : a store or supply (especially of food or clothing or arms)
[syn: {stores}, {provisions}]


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