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

supply \supply"\, n.; pl. supplies.
   1. the act of supplying; supplial. --a. tucker.
      1913 webster

   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.
      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.
      1913 webster
see also:
supplies stated supply supply and demand 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

supplies, eng. law. extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to 
supply the exigencies of the state. jacob's law dict. h.t. 

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