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supplies |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl {Supplies}. 1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker. 2. That which supplies a want sufficiency of things for use or want Specifically: a Auxiliary troops or re["e]nforcements. ``My promised supply of horsemen.'' --Shak. b The food, and the like which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as the army was discontented for lack of supplies. c An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as to vote supplies. d A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit. {Stated supply} (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [U.S.] {Supply and demand}. (Polit. Econ.) ``Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.'' --F. A. Walker. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: supplies n : a store or supply (especially of food or clothing or arms) [syn: {stores}, {provisions}]
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