supply
供应,提供,补给,供应品
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sup·plied, sup·ply·ing.
- : to furnish or provide with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- : to furnish or provide: to supply electricity to a community.
- : to make up, compensate for, or satisfy: The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity.
- : to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit.
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sup·plied, sup·ply·ing.
- : to fill the place of another, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives?
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plural sup·plies.
- : the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help.
- : something that is supplied: The storm cut off our water supply.
- : a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store: Did you see our new supply of shirts?
- : Usually supplies . a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter.
- : Economics. the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price.
- : supplies, Military. all items necessary for the equipment, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery.procurement, distribution, maintenance, and salvage of supplies.
- : a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, especially temporarily.
- : supplies. Obsolete. reinforcement.
- : Obsolete. aid.
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Examples
If you’re looking for a weatherproof, heavy-duty case with plenty of first aid supplies, this one’s for you.
It supplies Nreal with its Snapdragon processors, allowing the startup’s lightweight mixed reality glasses to easily plug into an Android phone.
“Despite a high self-sufficiency ratio for grains, the balance between the food demand and supply has been quite tight in recent years,” Si says.
While the Covid-19 outbreak has hammered the global economy and disrupted supply chains, Apple is seeing strong demand for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers from people working and studying remotely.
Greening that supply chain is crucial to the consumer electronics giant’s goal, announced in July, to have a net zero carbon footprint by 2030.
Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
If you answered seven or more of these correctly, you are eligible for a lifetime supply of Metamucil.
In Mosul, foreign fighters have left, the city is flooded with refugees and supply routes are cut off.
It would seek to cut off the main Allied lines of supply and communication.
First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?
You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.
Almost one-quarter of the total supply printed has been placed in circulation.
The increased volume of the supply thus produced inevitably forces down the price till it sinks to the point of cost.