SUPPLY

Supply

In economics, supply is the amount of some product producers are willing and able to sell at a given price all other factors being held constant. Usually, supply is plotted as a supply curve showing the relationship of price to the amount of product businesses are willing to sell.

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supply

Noun

  1. The act of supplying.
    supply and demand
  2. An amount of something supplied.
    A supply of good drinking water is essential.
  3. provisions.
  4. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
    to vote supplies
  5. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Verb

  1. To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
    to supply money for the war
  2. To furnish or equip with.
    to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
  3. To fill up, or keep full.
    Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
  4. To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  5. To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  6. To act as a substitute.
  7. To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
    to supply a pulpit

Adverb

  1. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.


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