Sekirov Dictionary

supply

/səˈplaɪ/

noun 6
verb 7
/ˈsʌp.li/ adverb 1
forms 7
phrases 1

noun6

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an amount of something that is kept ready so that people can use it when they need it
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
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[in the plural] Provisions.
- They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
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[in the plural] An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- to vote supplies
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The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
- The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
The act of supplying.
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

verb7

To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
To furnish or equip with.
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To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- Burning ships the banished sun supply. — 1666
To act as a substitute.
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
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To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect. — 1881
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To fill up, or keep full.
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

supply

/ˈsʌp.li/

adverb1

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Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
- His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply. — 1906

forms

supplied · supplying · supplies · supplieth · suppliest · more supply · most supply

Phrases with supply

supply up
To supply or be supplied with drugs to sell.

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