0 present participle of supply --
1 to provide something that is wanted or needed, often in large quantities and over a long period of time: --
At the beginning of termthe semester, students are supplied with a list of books that they are expected to read.
The company has supplied the royal family (= provided them with something they need) for years.
Three people have been arrested for supplying arms to the terrorists.
Electrical power is supplied by underground cables.
These communicative behaviours included assessing the partner's level of expertise, indicating one's own level of expertise, and, if necessary, acquiring or supplying expertise.
Opponents of capitalism advocated planning because they believed that the automatic economic forces of competition were no longer supplying solutions for modern societies.
If no longer supplying a "whole climate of opinion," its effect on the psychological weather thus endures.
One technique identified was to open the discussion and invite the children to provide answers rather than the nurse simply supplying the information.
By supplying a winding action - rather than direct axial traction - rotational manoeuvres will achieve forward motion even without traction on the fetal head.
He presents these materials very clearly, supplying the uninitiated reader with background explanations as needed.
The emerging principle is that farmers become providers of public goods, and that payments remain but be moved from rewarding production to supplying public goods.
It invests directly in the noncorporate sector by supplying physical capital and indirectly in the corporate sector by purchasing equity shares.