Meaning of supply | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of supplying.
   uncountable
2. offer (a proposal that has been made)
3. Set of basic items for sustenance given to members of groups such as troops, prisons, hospitals, etc.
4. An amount of something supplied.
   countable
5. offer (something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered)
6. Set of things or elements that give and consider basic or necessary for an end; effects supplied.
7. 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.
   countable, uncountable
8. Provisions.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
9. deal, sale, bargain
10. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
11. third-person singular present indicative
12. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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".”

“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.”

“They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.”

“to vote supplies”

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