supply
Give what's needed
Supply is about providing what's needed or requested.
A store supplies customers with goods; a well supplies water.
As a noun, supply is a stock or quantity available: medical supplies, the water supply, supply and demand.
In economics, supply meets demand—what's offered versus what's wanted.
To be in short supply is to be scarce.
A supply chain is the sequence of steps bringing products from raw materials to consumers.
Supply or equip
- deliverTransport to recipient
- provideSupply or make available
- distributeDivide and deliver
- stockGoods kept for sale
replenish · equip · allocate · dispense · grant · contribute · offer · bestow
Accumulated reserve supply
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- reserveSupply kept back
- cacheConcealed storage spot
- storesRetail establishments or reserves
hoard · stash · consignment · shipment · batch · allocation · surplus · buffer
Linked segments forming length
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
shipping · freight · delivery · fulfillment · vendor · sourcing · tracking · transportation
Forceful request or requirement
- marketVenue for trade
- equilibriumState of balance
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- curveSmooth, angleless line
price · scarcity · allocation · commodity · goods · shortage · surplus · substitute
Vehicle storage facility
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- rationsControlled food portions
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- quartermasterOfficer managing military supplies
materiel · provisions · airdrop · ordnance · armory · munitions · cache · requisition
Supply with sustenance
- streamSteady continuous flow
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- inflowArriving stream or current
- circulationMovement through a system
conduit · main · source · input · tap · valve · mains · grid
Amount exceeding requirement
- glutExcessive surplus
- excessSurplus beyond need
- plentifulExisting in abundance
- stockpiledAccumulated reserve supplies
ample · bounty · overstock · overflow · profusion · windfall · cornucopia · plenty
Deficient supply of necessities
- deficitAmount still owed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- lackDeficiency or absence
shortfall · crunch · squeeze · gap · constraint · bottleneck · rationing · depletion
furnish
Supply or equip
- deliverTransport to recipient
- provideSupply or make available
- distributeDivide and deliver
stock · replenish · equip · allocate · dispense · grant · contribute · offer · bestow · endow
stockpile
Accumulated reserve supply
stores · hoard · stash · consignment · shipment · batch · allocation · surplus · buffer · backlog
chain
Linked segments forming length
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- procurementObtaining goods externally
inventory · shipping · freight · delivery · fulfillment · vendor · sourcing · tracking · transportation · pipeline
demand
Forceful request or requirement
- marketVenue for trade
- equilibriumState of balance
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
curve · price · scarcity · allocation · commodity · goods · shortage · surplus · substitute · consumption
depot
Vehicle storage facility
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- rationsControlled food portions
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
quartermaster · materiel · provisions · airdrop · ordnance · armory · munitions · cache · requisition · commissary
feed
Supply with sustenance
- streamSteady continuous flow
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- inflowArriving stream or current
circulation · conduit · main · source · input · tap · valve · mains · grid · utility
surplus
Amount exceeding requirement
stockpiled · ample · bounty · overstock · overflow · profusion · windfall · cornucopia · plenty
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- deficitAmount still owed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
lack · shortfall · crunch · squeeze · gap · constraint · bottleneck · rationing · depletion · exhaustion
- businesscompany, corporation, firm, enterprise, commerce
- helpingaid, assist, give a hand, help, helping hand
- S wordssay, see, set, sit, son
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
- supplystock, provisions, stockpile, reserve, stores
supplydemand
Forceful request or requirement
need · consumption · want · requirement · requisition
supplyshortage
Deficient supply of necessities
lack · scarcity · deficiency · dearth · deprivation
- school suppliesMaterials for academic work
- office suppliesMaterials for desk work
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
- water supplyProvisioned H2O delivery system
- cleaning suppliesMaterials for removing dirt
- art suppliesTools for making artwork
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