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sup·ply

(sə-plī′)

tr.v. sup·plied, sup·ply·ing, sup·plies

1. To make available for use; provide: Does the hotel supply towels?

2. To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip: supplied the players with uniforms. See Synonyms at furnish.

3. To have as a necessary or desirable feature: a crime scene that supplied valuable evidence.

4. To fill sufficiently; satisfy: supply a need.

5. To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.

n. pl. sup·plies

1. The act of supplying: funds for the supply of the expedition.

2. An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock: Our supply of milk is low.

3. often supplies Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed.

4. Economics The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.

[Middle English supplien, to help, complete, furnish with additional troops, from Old French soupleer, to fill up, from Latin supplēre : sub-, from below; see sub- + plēre, to fill; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]

sup·pli′er n.

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supplies

In logistics, all materiel and items used in the equipment, support, and maintenance of military forces. See also assembly; component; equipment; subassembly.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Translations

تَورِيدَات

zásobování

forsyninger

Versorgungsmaterial

εφόδια

provisiones aprovisionamiento existencias

tarvikkeet

fournitures

zalihe

approvvigionamenti provviste

食糧

공급품

verbruiksartikelen

forsyninger

zapasy

abastecimentos suprimento

запасы

proviant

สิ่งที่จัดหาให้

erzak

nhu yếu phẩm

物资

supplies

→ تَورِيدَات zásobování forsyninger Versorgungsmaterial εφόδια provisiones tarvikkeet fournitures zalihe provviste 食糧 공급품 verbruiksartikelen forsyninger zapasy abastecimentos, suprimento запасы proviant สิ่งที่จัดหาให้ erzak nhu yếu phẩm 物资

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Ingenious men may declaim with plausibility on any subject; but no human ingenuity can point out any other expedient to rescue us from the inconveniences and embarrassments naturally resulting from defective supplies of the public treasury.

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The salmon on the west side of the Rocky Mountains are, like the buffalo on the eastern plains, vast migratory supplies for the wants of man, that come and go with the seasons.

He had more goods and supplies of various kinds, also, than were required for present purposes, or than could be conveniently transported on horseback; aided, therefore, by a few confidential men, he made caches, or secret pits, during the night, when all the rest of the camp were asleep, and in these deposited the superfluous effects, together with the wagons.

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Will each bring the result of his labours into a common stock?--the individual husbandman, for example, producing for four, and labouring four times as long and as much as he need in the provision of food with which he supplies others as well as himself; or will he have nothing to do with others and not be at the trouble of producing for them, but provide for himself alone a fourth of the food in a fourth of the time, and in the remaining three-fourths of his time be employed in making a house or a coat or a pair of shoes, having no partnership with others, but supplying himself all his own wants?

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Lanskoy informed the commander in chief that the army supplies were for the most part stored along the Oka in the Tula and Ryazan provinces, and that if they retreated on Nizhni the army would be separated from its supplies by the broad river Oka, which cannot be crossed early in winter.

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Inferior posts would be established in the interior, and on all the tributary streams of the Columbia, to trade with the Indians; these posts would draw their supplies from the main establishment, and bring to it the peltries they collected.

A ship was to be sent annually from New York to this main establishment with reinforcements and supplies, and with merchandise suited to the trade.

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I told him their case and mine differed exceedingly; that they were cast upon the shore without necessaries, without supply of food, or present sustenance till they could provide for it; that, it was true, I had this further disadvantage and discomfort, that I was alone; but then the supplies I had providentially thrown into my hands, by the unexpected driving of the ship on the shore, was such a help as would have encouraged any creature in the world to have applied himself as I had done.

They gave me dismal accounts of the extremities they were driven to; how sometimes they were many days without any food at all, the island they were upon being inhabited by a sort of savages that lived more indolent, and for that reason were less supplied with the necessaries of life, than they had reason to believe others were in the same part of the world; and yet they found that these savages were less ravenous and voracious than those who had better supplies of food.

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In the meanwhile you will not starve, as you have plenty of supplies. If you will travel northeast you will come again to Puerto Cortes in due season.

The baggage, stores and supplies that were to be left behind were made as snug as possible, and so piled up that wild beasts could do the least harm.

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The country upon which all others depend for their supplies will be the land which will promulgate free trade, for it will be conscious of its power to produce its manufactures at prices lower than those of any of its competitors.