supply
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- Hyphenation: sup‧ply
- verb, noun
- adverb
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- (countable & uncountable) 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.
- (plural only) 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.
- (uncountable) 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.
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- (transitive) 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.
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- In a supple way.