supply

Definition

  • noun: the amount of something that is available to be used
  • verb: to add as a 'supplement'
  • verb: to make (something) available to be used
  • often used in plural
  • synonyms: furnish, administer, provide

Examples

  • If the company produces less of a product than the public wants, the 'law of supply and demand' says that the company can charge more for the product.

  • Doctors are 'in short supply'. [=there are not enough doctors]

  • The state is trying to disrupt the 'supply' of illegal drugs.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Dillon, you're late. - "D" line trains were so slow, sir. Don't you realise that Oscorp is now responsible for the entire city' energy supply? The designs for the power grid and they use a lot of them and I noticed that in those power grids were the designs by me. You designed them? (..)
    2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2