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

  • (..) Is all about true? What? You and him. So where are Cato and the others? They got all their supplies down by the lake. It's prod up in this great big pyramid. That sounds tempting. Now this green stuff is gonna smoke like crazy, so (..)
    2012 The Hunger Games