supply run
Fetch needed materials
A supply run is a trip made specifically to obtain needed items—groceries, ammunition, medical equipment, or other necessities.
The phrase implies purpose and return: you go out, get what's needed, and come back.
Common in military contexts, survival scenarios, and everyday domestic life alike: I'm making a supply run to the hardware store, The squad went on a supply run and never came back.
- errandShort task away from home
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- missionPurpose-driven task
- restockReplenish depleted inventory
- haulPull or carry laboriously
quick trip · grocery · grocery store · fetch · trip · road trip · gas station · convoy · rations · essentials · scavenge · stockpile · cargo · necessities · last minute · depot · forage · ammunition
- errandsgrocery shopping, groceries, dry cleaning, pharmacy, post office
- Replenishingrestocking, refilling, reloading, topping off, refueling
- voyagesvoyage, sea voyage, cruise, passage, crossing
- bush flyingbush pilot, bush plane, backcountry, taildragger, floatplane
- Expeditionsexpedition, Antarctic expedition, Arctic expedition, expeditions, Arctic exploration
- sea voyagesvoyage, sea voyages, crossing, ocean voyages, sea voyage
supply runraid
Sudden armed incursion
attack run · bombing run · combat mission · assault · search and destroy
supply runplundering
Forcible taking of goods
pillage · raid · looting · confiscation · seizure
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