Supplies

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. {Supplies}.
     1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker.
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     2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
        or want. Specifically: 


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        (a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised
            supply of horsemen." --Shak.
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        (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.
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        (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.
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        (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.
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     {Stated supply} (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a
        pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.
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     {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.
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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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUPPLIES, Eng. Law. Extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to 
  supply the exigencies of the state. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.