Word Finder - supply

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The act of supplying.

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supply and demand

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An amount of something supplied.

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A supply of good drinking water is essential.

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(in the plural) provisions.

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(chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

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to vote supplies

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Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

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To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

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to supply money for the war

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To furnish or equip with.

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to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

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To fill up, or keep full.

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Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

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To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.

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To serve instead of; to take the place of.

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To act as a substitute.

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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 supply a pulpit

Jackson stopped by the art supply store on the way home to purchase supplies for Elisabeth.

Supply chains are spread across the world.

She can locate and open the federal emergency supply depots.

I'm sending the location of the nearest supply center.

Her air supply cut off, she tore at the hand holding her until the skin on his arm fell away to reveal smooth, black skin more akin to a reptile's than a human's.

There was no additional supply nor could we ration it as there was no way to reignite it.

It wasn't wise to allow a canteen to go empty in this country, but the water supply was getting low.

Towels were in short supply, rooms needed quick cleaning, and Cynthia, Maria, and Dean had their hands full.

Bill tossed Carmen's supply package to Alex, who deftly caught it.

This would be the case in a besieged city or a nation using the food supply to keep its citizenry in check.

Several of the buildings had been stripped of receivers to supply the hospital with extra ones.

She opened the cupboards and glanced over her meager supply of canned goods.

They should always be fitted with a pan of water to supply the necessary humidity to the warmed air, and a flue to carry off any disagreeable fumes.

For all practical purposes, we have an unlimited supply of air to breathe.

The supply depots we found open this morning?

When I see that she is eager to tell me something, but is hampered because she does not know the words, I supply them and the necessary idioms, and we get along finely.

Besides, I still have some of my old supply of Tums.

She retrieved her microcomputer with the other hand and checked the supply store she granted the Guardian access to.

You figure out how to deal with the supply issue?

A few of more of the feds' secret supply facilities were found today.

Did you open the supply facilities, too?

It has an excellent supply of mountain spring water.

Through the cross streets of the Khamovniki quarter the prisoners marched, followed only by their escort and the vehicles and wagons belonging to that escort, but when they reached the supply stores they came among a huge and closely packed train of artillery mingled with private vehicles.

I can tell you where the nearest emerops supply is.

She'd never thought to open the supply points for the general public.

She found a supply room and acquired several pairs of boots, fully knowing she'd come back with wet feet every time she left.

She went to a farm supply store and purchased enough supplies to fence in a large area in the south part of their land.

It is hunted chiefly for the sake of the ivory of its immense tusks, of which it yields the principal source of supply to the European market, and the desire to obtain which is rapidly leading to the extermination of the species.

These ordinary ridge beds furnish a good supply towards the end of summer, and in autumn.

To command a regular supply, however, at all seasons, the use of a mushroom-house will be found very convenient.

For a winter supply the beds should be made towards the end of August, and the end of October.

His approval of the attempt of the Lords to alter a money bill led to the loss of the supply to Charles and to the consequent displeasure of the king.

Rain is very scarce, but the canals supply ample water for cultivation and all other purposes.

They played a brilliant part in the War of Independence (1821-1829), and to-day supply the Greek army with its best soldiers.

A flow pipe which serves also for expansion is taken from the top of the cylinder to a point above the cold - water supply and turned down to prevent the ingress of dirt.

In total acreage of cereals (16,920,095 in 1899) it ranked first (Twelfth Census of the United States), and in product of cereals was exceeded by Illinois only; in acreage of hay and forage (4,649,378 in 1899) as well as in the annual supply of milk (535,872,240 gallons in 1899) it was exceeded by New York only.

Fresh water, rising and falling with the tide, is found in certain large caverns in Lifu, and by sinking to the sea-level a supply may be obtained in any part of the island.

Most things come in a limited supply, so some people have a thing and others do not.

The maximum wage you can earn, though, is defined by supply and demand for labor, and by your negotiating ability, but it also has a cap.

The system was revised in the 1830s because it was viewed as discouraging work by interfering with the laws of supply and demand relating to labor.

I supply a word here and there, sometimes a sentence, and suggest something which she has omitted or forgotten.

They had nothing to eat themselves, and they were wiser than to think that apologies could supply the place of food to their guests; so they drew their belts tighter and said nothing about it.

Those standing behind noticed what a speaker omitted to say and hastened to supply it.

They stayed in the barn for a while, watching as the foal took its first steps, and finally found the milk supply.

Other thoughts collided with her emotions, ones that reminded her that she was forever trapped with some otherworldly creature that viewed her as a food supply and nothing more.

A slight burst of tears followed from Martha until Dean rendered a speech on survival of the fittest, the laws of the jungle, the food chain and supply and demand.

Agriculture exists only for the supply of local needs.

It generally happens that to obtain the greatest possible amount of work from a given supply of energy, and to obtain it at the greatest rate, are conflicting interests.

It is in the attempt to supply the place of this continuo (or _ figured bass) by definite orchestral parts that modern per formances, until the most recent times, have shown so radical an incapacity to grasp the nature of 18th-century instrumentation.

Closely analogous to the action of the state in the cases referred to is the action taken by municipal authorities with the authority of the legislature in competing with or superseding private companies for the supply of electric light, gas, water, tramways and other public services..