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Meaning supply meaning

What does supply mean?
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supply Noun

— A supply is an amount of something that you can use when you need it. We will need a supply of water. During the war, the Americans destroyed their food supply. Sadly these books are in very short supply in Britain. The price of oil changes quickly to match supply and demand. — Supplies are things like food, water, medicine, gasoline, etc. that people need when they are not near somewhere where they can get them easily. The Japanese government is finally planning to send medical supplies and financial support. — Supply is the act or system of supplying something. They plan to fix the Russian economy and improve the supply of food and consumer goods. The airplane's air supply wasn't working.

supply Verb

— If you supply something, you make it available, usually regularly. We were supplied with a few basic tools that we needed for the job. Our garden supplies us with all the food we need. The office was well supplied with chairs.

supply Adverb

— In a supple way.

supply

— verb (= provide) give something useful or necessary to We provided the room with an electrical heater — noun an amount of something available for use — verb (= issue) circulate or distribute or equip with issue a new uniform to the children supply blankets for the beds — noun offering goods and services for sale — verb (= provide) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance The hostess provided lunch for all the guests — noun (= supplying) the activity of supplying or providing something — verb state or say further 'It doesn't matter,' he supplied

Synonyms supply synonyms

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supply English » English

provide furnish provision stock deliver reserve equip delivery give store render purvey accommodate supplying procurement offer feed cater replenishment issue grant add stockpile serve reserves purveyance outfit distribution distribute supplies ship satisfy provisioning procure payment lot get fund fit arrivals arrival append allowance allow administration yield victuals victualling source send

Topics supply topics

What do people use supply to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Share with

Provide for, support
Social behavior Conflict

War
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Produce wealth
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Spring, well
States Quantity

Enough

Conjugation supply conjugation

How do you conjugate supply?

supply · verb

Examples supply examples

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Simple sentences

Can you supply me with what I need?
The supply can not keep up with the demand.
Cows supply us with many things we need.
Cows supply us with milk.
We have a plentiful supply of water.
Our supply of food is exhausted.
Excessive supply leads to a drop in prices.
Scientists will come up with new methods of increasing the world's food supply.
Prices depend on supply and demand.
The store can supply us with anything we need.
Because of fighting in the region, the oil supply was temporarily cut off.
Can you supply me with all I need?
The Great Lakes supply drinking water.
Cows supply milk.
Recently the demand for this product has increased faster than the supply.
The brain needs a continuous supply of blood.
I don't supply my real name to any site on the Internet.
The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
Our supply of sugar has run out.
The store has enough shoes on hand to supply any normal demand.
We need a fresh supply of tennis balls.
That water tower holds a three-day supply.
Today's spacesuits are pressurized, have an oxygen supply, protect the astronaut from micrometeoroid bombardment while spacewalking, and insulate the astronaut from the severe temperature changes experienced in space.
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

Movie subtitles

Right kidney's lost blood supply.
We are looking for a pesticide manufacturer who used to supply tobacco growers but made the transition to corn.
It is he who prevents its supply, so he may benefit himself.
The Northern division nearing the bridge to meet the supply trains.
He wished us to supply him with other bodies, and we were not to be too particular as to where and how we got them.
We're all right as long as the water supply holds out.
I can supply the breeding myself.
Name your poison, and I'll supply it.
Our new victory at the coal pits. has brought a great supply of oil within our reach.
Chain the supply sledges together and put them behind you.
Take him to the supply train.
Looks like supply service for trunk murderers.
Any attempts to supply provisions of inferior quality will be met by severe rebuke.
I demand military escort for my supply train.
The unmanned supply vehicle has already separated and is on trajectory for the station's orbit.
But that could interfere with the water supply.
Ladies and Gentlemen. it is no small task, as you know. to supply my establishment with new talent.
We older men supply the champagne.
Enough ivory to supply the world.
Fulton recalled that on at least one occasion either the air supply developed a problem, or the summer heat along with the units lighting the set. In any case, something. The double was overcome and he fainted mid-scene.
His plans are thwarted as he is about to place invisible cholera bacteria into New York's water supply that no microscope would be able to detect.
I had you brought here to be an obedient wife. and to supply my country with a much-needed heir to the throne.
We might supply it.
Perhaps I can supply you the answer.
It's my turn to supply the answer.
So we cut their water supply down to a trickle.
Water? Taking off our water supply just makes us thirstier for justice!
We are looking for a pesticide manufacturer who used to supply tobacco growers but transitioned to corn.
Passing all those supply trains and guns.
But the oxygen supply is only enough for the way back.
I'm Evans from the Angler Supply Company.
Too bad we can't supply photos of you.
And if you'll all excuse me, I might supply that, too.
Here she is, the missing link, the witness who will help supply the motive.
Could you supply a reason, Dr. Baker, for Mrs. De Winter's suicide?
Yeah, I know it's none of my business, but for elopements we supply a box of rice.
Doesn't Johnny supply them?
Lewt can supply the charming musical background.

News and current affairs

Countries that wish to develop nuclear energy but not nuclear bombs should be given international guarantees of fuel supply and disposal of spent fuel.
And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.
Will developing countries' need to generate large increases in the supply of industrial products inevitably clash with the world's intolerance of trade imbalances?
Most developed countries already have a tax of this size (and often much larger) on electricity and fossil fuels, although this also incorporates the costs of air pollution and supply insecurity.
For example, a boost is expected from Japan's reconstruction and supply-chain resumption.
In many countries, the supply of blood for medical purposes relies on voluntary, anonymous donations.
But when supply is less than demand, prices rise sharply.
Finally, rigid labor markets and, more generally, regulatory constraints on prices and on the supply response of the economy, deepen recessionary reactions to various shocks, and contribute to the growth of unemployment.
These measures will need to be revisited both to increase the supply of labor and to make public finances more sustainable.
And, because demand is depressed, credit is in short supply, and barriers to enterprise are often high, it will take longer than usual for businesses to create more productive jobs.
Thus, there is a global slackening of aggregate demand relative to the glut of supply capacity, which will impede a robust global economic recovery.
Experts may say that short-run supply factors caused the recent price increases, but the price increases will nonetheless lend credibility to scarier long-term stories.
They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.
The resulting supply surge drives down prices, reinforces expectations of further declines, and produces the inverse of a speculative bubble: a collapse in prices.
To consumers in industrialized countries, uninterrupted power supply is a given.
Coal plants currently provide more than half of America's electricity supply.
One particular worry is that euro-zone money supply is well above the ECB's benchmark level, indicating an excess supply of liquidity.
But another major factor contributing to Japan's decline was that firms elsewhere began adopting Japanese methods, such as just-in-time supply chains.
The housing problem is contributing to the financial crisis, which in turn is reducing the supply of credit needed to sustain economic activity.
As homeowners with large negative equity default, the foreclosed homes contribute to the excess supply that drives prices down further.
But the macroeconomic weakness in the US now goes beyond the decreased supply of credit. Falling house prices reduce household wealth and therefore consumer spending.
The second limitation of long run models is this: they are estimated from history and so make no allowance for dramatic changes in the supply side or financial environment.
Futures traders knew about the growth of China and other emerging markets; but they expected supply - mainly from low-cost Middle East providers - to increase in tandem with demand.
The counterpart of here, because exchange rates always ride on differential performance, is a continued poor supply side performance in Europe and Japan's ongoing and pervasive economic distress.

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