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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Supply \Sup*ply"\, noun; 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "supplies": 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
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