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What (who) is supply - definition
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Supplies; Economic supply; Supply schedule; Supply (disambiguation)
supply
(supplies, supplying, supplied)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you supply someone with something that they want or need, you give them a quantity of it.
...an agreement not to produce or supply chemical weapons.
...a pipeline which will supply the major Greek cities with Russian natural gas.
...the blood vessels supplying oxygen to the brain.
VERB: V n, V n with n, V n to n
2.
You can use supplies to refer to food, equipment, and other essential things that people need, especially when these are provided in large quantities.
What happens when food and gasoline supplies run low?...
The country's only supplies are those it can import by lorry from Vietnam.
N-PLURAL: oft n N
3.
A supply of something is an amount of it which someone has or which is available for them to use.
The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen...
Most urban water supplies in the United States now contain fluoride in varying amounts.
N-VAR: N of n, n N
4.
Supply is the quantity of goods and services that can be made available for people to buy. (BUSINESS)
Prices change according to supply and demand.
? demand
N-UNCOUNT
5.
If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
Food is in short supply all over the country...
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
Supply
·noun The act of supplying; supplial.
II. Supply ·noun Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
III. Supply ·vt To serve instead of; to take the place of.
IV. Supply ·noun That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
V. Supply ·adj Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
VII. Supply ·noun A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; ·esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
VIII. Supply ·noun An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
IX. Supply ·vt To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to Occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
X. Supply ·noun The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store;
- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
XI. Supply ·vt To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake;
- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
supply
supply1 [s?'pl??]
¦ verb (supplies, supplying, supplied)
1. make (something needed) available to someone.
provide with something needed.
be adequate to satisfy (a requirement or demand).
2. archaic take over (a vacant place or role).
¦ noun (plural supplies)
1. a stock or amount of something supplied or available.
the action of supplying.
2. [usu. as modifier] a person, especially a schoolteacher, acting as a temporary substitute for another.
3. (supplies) Brit. a grant of money by Parliament for the costs of government.
Phrases
on supply (of a schoolteacher) acting as a temporary substitute.
supply and demand the amount of a good or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.
Derivatives
supplier noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. soupleer, from L. supplere 'fill up'.
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supply2 ['s?pli]
¦ adverb variant spelling of supplely (see supple).
Wikipedia
Supply
Supply may refer to:
- The amount of a resource that is available
- Supply (economics), the amount of a product which is available to customers
- Materiel, the goods and equipment for a military unit to fulfill its mission
- Supply, as in confidence and supply, the provision of funds for government expenditure
- Narcissistic supply, the way in which a narcissistic individual requires affirmation, approval, and admiration from others in the same way as the infant requires an external supply of food
Examples of use of supply
1. The firms that failed to sell on Friday were the Kolsk Electricity Supply Co., the Astrakhan Electricity Supply Co., the Bryansk Electricity Supply Co., the Komi Electricity Supply Co., StavropolEnergosbyt, Energosbyt RostovEnergo, Kostromskaya Supply Co., and Orlovsk Supply Co.
2. There is currently little slack in the supply system to deal with any disruptions in supply.
3. California provides 12 percent of the U.S. oil supply and 40 percent of the state‘s supply.
4. "Last year, for the first time, coal supply from Russia exceeded supply from British mines and probably accounted for about 15 percent of U.K. electricity supply," Yaxley said.
5. Limited supply Finally, there’s the simple fact that there’s just not enough supply to meet demand.