SUPPLIES Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of supply

as in inventories

the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time the supply of parents willing to coach youth soccer seems to be shrinking

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verb

present tense third-person singular of supply

as in equips

to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity be sure to pack your own towels in case the hostel doesn't supply them

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as in provides

to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption the stable will supply safety helmets, but we need to bring our own riding boots

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Recent Examples of supplies

Noun

Road blockades have caused shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies in parts of the country and ground the economy to a halt over the past 50 days. —

Helen Regan, CNN Money, 20 June 2026 Nick Engen and Taylor Calmus CBS To help encourage fathers navigating similar experiences, Taylor Calmus, creator of the popular online Dude Dad brand, visited the NICU ahead of Father's Day to surprise Engen and other dads with gift bags filled with supplies. —

Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 20 June 2026 Amirhosein Khorgooi | Reuters Early signs that the Strait of Hormuz is reopening have eased the most acute threat to global energy supplies, but economic damages from the nearly four months of war will take months to unwind, analysts warned. —

Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 June 2026 Later this year, the drones will be carrying medical supplies for the program’s first client, a hospital. —

Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026 Order it now for just $5 while supplies last! —

Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 The response so far remains more contained than in 2022 Russia-Ukraine crisis when disruptions to Russian gas supplies triggered a sharp surge in global coal demand. —

Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 It's owned by Medline, a major medical-surgical products provider of equipment such as latex gloves, masks, surgical instruments and other medical supplies. —

ABC News, 12 June 2026 Getting Canadarm2 back online will be critical to berth some cargo ships at the space station, which carry food, equipment and other supplies to the astronauts, as well as to perform a share of maintenance on the orbiting complex. —

Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 12 June 2026

Verb

OpenAI supplies the model and the orchestration. —

Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 Two other ships attacked by the US in the Gulf this week had Indian crew members on board — India supplies around 12% of the global merchant shipping workforce. —

J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 11 June 2026 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory supplies numerical codes that map plasma behavior. —

Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 Their decomposition supplies organic material in the soil, but that means wood-type mulches will need to be replaced about every other year, with an annual touch-up to maintain their effective thickness. —

Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2026 That dwindling flow is causing panic across the region because the river supplies water to more than 40 million people in seven Western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. —

The Week Us, TheWeek, 8 June 2026 The model handles the reasoning; the web supplies the facts that make the reasoning useful. —

Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 June 2026 Moscow also controls a significant portion of Armenia’s energy and infrastructure and supplies it with cheap gas, which is a point that Putin has been quick to drive home in his meetings with Pashinyan. —

ABC News, 7 June 2026 One such prize, the Nancy, was transporting 2,000 muskets, 30 tons of musket balls and a massive 15-inch brass mortar – supplies the American army desperately needed for the war effort. —

Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

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Noun

Companies tallied their emissions, governments folded those tallies into national inventories, and the rest of us took the sum on trust.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
But commercial oil inventories are rapidly dwindling.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 June 2026