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supply

verb/səˈplaɪ/

to give what is desired or needed, especially goods and services

The only country that was eligible to supply avocados to the U.S. market was the Dominican Republic

provide
word origin — late Middle English: from Old French soupleer, from Latin supplere ‘fill up’, from sub- ‘from below’ + plere ‘fill’. The early sense of the noun was ‘assistance, relief’ (chiefly a Scots use)