Synonyms:
provision, supply, supplying
Meaning: the activity of supplying or providing something
Usage examples
NURSING CHICKENS.--I know several instances of cats supplying the place of their lost kittens with a chicken.
I want a journal that is up to the times, progressive and enterprising, supplying the public demand at all points.
Here I paused for an instant, in the expectation that Madame Lalande would interrupt me by supplying her true age.
Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good.
Hereupon the bishop sent him to Rome, furnishing him with a guide and supplying plenty of all things requisite for his journey, earnestly requesting that he would come that way, when he returned into his own country.
The butcher, the brewer, and the baker, soon join them, together with many other artificers and retailers, necessary or useful for supplying their occasional wants, and who contribute still further to augment the town.
It is, therefore, as necessary that the State governments should be able to command the means of supplying their wants, as that the national government should possess the like faculty in respect to the wants of the Union.
Harbouring no doubt of the information thus mysteriously sent him--the handwriting seemed to be that of a man, but gave no further hint as to its origin--Hewett the next day journeyed down into Lancashire, Sidney supplying him with money.
The number of establishments has been increased by specialization of farming which has called for many industries to produce the things once made on farms, and by increasing wealth and invention, which has made possible many small industries supplying things before almost unknown.
Such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water-wheel for water was the screw propeller, although adapted, not as a generator, but as an application of power. Having made the work and stress continuous, the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power.