supplies

3 definitions • 11 examples

food or other things necessary for living:

The refugees are urgently in need of food and medical supplies.

We store our cleaning supplies in this cupboard.

We need to make sure our soldiers have the supplies they need.

We have enough supplies to keep us alive for a month.

We woke to discover our supplies had been stolen.

an amount of something available:

supplies of Extensive mining has reduced the supplies of coal in the area.

A prolonged drought has lowered beef supplies.

We have large supplies of antiviral medicines.

If the oil pipeline ends up damaged, there will be a mad scramble for the remaining supplies.

We need to ensure sufficient supplies of electricity for households.

food and other ordinary goods needed by people every day:

On their fourth day out, the climbers began to run low on supplies.