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Definition: Supply |
SupplyNoun1. An amount of something available for use. 2. Offering goods and services for sale. 3. The activity of supplying or providing something. Verb1. Provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"; "render assistence". 2. Circulate or distribute; "issue a new uniform to the children". 3. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests". 4. State or say further; " `It doesn't matter,' " he supplied". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "supply" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Economics | The quantity of a produce or service coming on the market, particularly as specified by price and period of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A public service provided by a utility to any consumer and determined according to technical and commercial criteria such as frequency, voltage, continuity, maximum demand, supply terminals, cost. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Arms trade is the exchange of arms (weapons) among two or more parties.It is estimated that yearly over 150 billion dollar is spent on arms.
Top 15 arms exporters in 1999
source: Federation of American Scientists, [1]
- United States, 33 billion US$
- Great Britain, 5.2 billion US$
- Russia, 3.1 billion US$
- France, 2.9 billion US$
- Germany, 1.9 billion US$
- Sweden, 0.7 billion US$
- Israel, 0.6 billion US$
- Australia, 0.6 billion US$
- Canada, 0.6 billion US$
- Ukraine, 0.6 billion US$
- Italy, 0.4 billion US$
- China, 0.3 billion US$
- Belarus, 0.3 billion US$
- Bulgaria, 0.2 billion US$
- North Korea, 0.1 billion US$
Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms say that roughly 500,000 people are killed each year by the use of small arms, and that there are over 600 million of such arms in circulation.
United States arms trade
In the US there is a distinction made between foreign military sales (FMS), where the Pentagon is used as an intermediate negotiator, and direct commercial sales (DCS), where a company directly negotiates with its buyer, in which case the company needs a license from the State Department. The Defense Department manages the excess defense articles (EDA), weapons from the US military given away or sold at bargain prices, emergency drawdowns, assistance provided at the discretion of the President, and international military education and training (IMET).In the period from 1989 to 1996 the global value of direct commercial arms sales was US$ 257 million, of which 45% was exported from the US.
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International military education and training
In fiscal year 2002 a total of 70 million US$ was spent on IMET, spread over 113 countries.
Drawdowns
In fiscal year 2002 a total of 46 million US$ worth of drawdowns were provided to Nigeria (4 million US$), Afghanistan (2 million US$), Georgia (25 million US$), the Philippines (10 million US$) and Tunisia (5 million US$).Defense contractors
Defense contractors are weapon manufacturers or companies participating in weapon research and warfare simulation.See also private military contractor.
List of weapon manufacturers
- AAI
- Armscor, South Africa
- BAE SYSTEMS, US
- Boeing, US
- Bofors Defence
- Carlyle Group, US
- DaimlerChrysler, US, Germany
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Incorporated
- Glock
- General Electric Plastics
- Grumman Aerospace Corporation
- Kaman
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Raytheon Corporation
- Thales Group, France
- United Defense
- Saab Missiles, Sweden
Institutes participating in weapon research and warfare simulation
- TNO [1]
- DARPA
- Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Related topics
- Small arms
External links
- The Guardian's arms trade report
- List of participators of the Defence System and Equipment international conference in London, 2003
- FAS's Arms Sales Monitoring Project
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Electricity retailing is the final process in the delivery of electricity from generation to the consumer. The other main processes are transmission and distribution.
Beginnings
Electricity retailing began at the end of the 19th century when the bodies who generated electricity for their own use made supply available to third parties. In the beginning, electricity was primarily used for street lighting and trams. The provision of these services was generally the responsibility of municipal authorities who either set up their own departments or contracted the services from private entrepreneurs. Residential, commercial and industrial use of electricity was confined, initially, to lighting but this changed dramatically with the development of electric motors, heaters and communication devices. The basic principle of supply has not changed since this time. The amount of power used by the domestic consumer, and thus the amount charged, is measured through an electric meter that is usually placed near the input of a home to provide easy access to the meter reader. Customers are usually charged a monthly service fee and additional charges accrue to the number of kWh (kilowatt hours) that are consumed by the household or business during the month. Commercial and industrial consumers normally have more complex pricing schemes and meters that measure the enegy usage in time intervals to impose demand charges.
Monopoly supply
The rapid growth in electric appliances in the early part of the 20th century contributed to an explosive growth in electrification around the world. The supply of electricity to homes, offices, shops, factories, farms, and mines became the responsibility of public utilities, which were either private organisation subject to monopoly regulation or public authorities owned by local, state or national bodies. In some countries a statutory or government-granted monopoly was created, which was controlled by legislation (for example Eskom in South Africa).
Home electrical meters
Electricity retailing in the period from approximately 1890 to 1990 consisted of managing the connection, disconnection and billing of electricity consumers by the local monopoly supplier. In many utilities there was a marketing function which encouraged electricity usage when there was excess capacity to supply and encouraged conservation when supply was tight.
Creating a market
In 1990 there was a significant development in the way electricity was bought and sold. In many countries, the electricity market wasderegulated to open up the supply of electricity to competition. In the United Kingdom the Electricity Supply Industry was radically reformed to establish competition. This trend continued in other countries (see New Zealand Electricity Market) and the role of electricity retailing changed from what was essentially an administrative function within an integrated utility to a become a risk management function within a competitive electricity market.Electricity retailers now provide fixed prices for electricity to their customers and manage the risk involved in purchasing electricity from spot markets or electricity pools. This development has not been without casualties. The most notable example of poor risk management (coupled with poor market regulation) occurred in California in the summer of 2001, when Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison were driven into bankruptcy by having to purchase electricity at high spot prices and sell at low fixed rates.
Customers may choose from a number of competing suppliers. They may also opt to pay more for "green" power, i.e. electricity sourced from renewable energy generation such as wind power or solar power.
An electricity provider is often known as "the electric company" or "the power company".
See also
distributed generation, powerline communications and modemsSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electricity retailing."
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Loss of Supply occurs where a government in a parliamentary democracy is by parliamentary vote denied a supply of treasury or exchequer funds, by whichever house or houses of parliament is constitutionally entitled to grant and deny supply. A defeat on a budgetary vote is one such way by which supply can be denied.When a Loss of Supply occurs, a prime minister is generally required either by constitutional convention or by explicit constitutional instruction to:
Some constitutions however do not allow the option of dissolution, instead requiring a resignation.
- immediately resign (so, allowing someone else to attempt to gain Supply), or
- seek a parliamentary dissolution (so allowing the electorate to pass judgment on the issue).
A similar deadlock can occur within presidential systems where it is known as a budget crisis. In contrast to parliamentary systems, the failure of the legislature to authorize spending does not result in new elections because legislatures in such systems operate to fixed terms and so cannot be dissolved ahead of schedule, which can result in a prolonged crisis.
Examples of Loss of Supply
- The defeat of Garret FitzGerald's government in a budget vote in Dáil Éireann in the Republic of Ireland in 1982. FitzGerald immediately sought, and was granted, a Dáil dissolution.1
- In the Australian Constitutional Crisis of 1975, the Australian Senate refused to vote on a bill which authorized supply for the government of Gough Whitlam. He was subsequently dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, having failed either to resign or request a dissolution. This dismissal was extremely controversial in that Whitlam argued that the upper house acted against convention in refusal to pass a bill which the lower house had passed and again in refusing to put the bill to a vote, where it would have likely passed, while it argued that its breach of convention was in response to alleged breaches of convention by Whitlam.
Footnotes
1 Article 28.2.2. of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the 1937 Irish constitution) states that
In tandem, Article 13.2.2. states that
- The Taoiseach shall resign from office upon his ceasing to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann unless on his advice the President dissolves Dáil Éireann and on the reassembly of Dáil Éireann after the dissolution the Taoiseach secures the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann.
In such an eventuality the Taoiseach, in accordance with Article 28.2.2., must resign. Loss of Supply is taken as unambiguous evidence that a Taoiseach has "ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann", as is defeat of a Motion of Confidence, passage of a Motion of No Confidence, defeat of a major Bill or any measure a prime minister declares to be of such importance as to in effect amount to a confidence issue.
- The President may in absolute discretion refuse to dissolve Dáil Éireann on the advice of a Taoiseach who has ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann.
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In microeconomic theory, the theory of supply and demand explains how the price and quantity of goods sold in markets are determined.
In general where goods are traded in a market, prices of goods tend to rise when the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied at that price, leading to a shortage, and conversely that prices tend to fall when quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. This causes the market to approach an equilibrium point at which quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded. Price is thus seen as a function of supply curves and demand curves.
The theory of supply and demand is important in the functioning of a market economy in that it explains the mechanism by which most resource allocation decisions are made.
The theory of supply and demand is usually developed assuming that markets are perfectly competitive. This means that there are many small buyers and sellers, each of which is unable to influence the price of the good on its own.
Simple Supply and Demand curves
This can be illustrated with the following graph:
The demand curve is the amount that will be bought at a given price. The supply curve is the quantity that producers are willing to make at a given price. As you can see, more will be purchased when the price is lower (the quantity goes up). On the other hand, as the price goes up, producers are willing to produce more goods. Where these cross is the equilibrium. This will create a price of P and a quantity of Q since that is where the two lines cross.
In the figure straight lines are drawn instead of the more general curves. See also Price elasticity of demand.
Demand curve shifts
When more people want something the demand curve will shift right. An example of this would be more people suddenly wanting more coffee. This will cause the demand curve to shift from the initial curve D0 to the new curve D1. This raises the equilibrium price from P0 to the higher P1. This raises the equilibrium quantity from Q0 to the higher Q1. In this situation, we say that there has been an increase in demand which has caused an extension in supply.
Conversely, if the demand decreases, the opposite happens. If the demand starts at D1, and then decreases to D0, the price will decrease and the quantity supplied will decrease - a contraction in supply.
Supply curve shifts
When the suppliers costs change the supply curve will shift. For example, if someone invents a better way of growing wheat, then the amount of wheat that can be grown for a given price will increase. This creates a shift from a original supply curve S0 to a new lower supply curve S1 - a decrease in supply. This causes the equilibrium price to decrease from P0 to P1. The equilibrium quantity increases from Q0 to Q1 as the quantity demanded increases - an extension in demand. Notice that the price and the quantity move in opposite directions in a supply curve shift.
Conversely, if the supply increases, the opposite happens. If the supply curve starts at S1, and then shifts to S0, the price will increase and the quantity will decrease as there is a contraction in demand.
Effects of being away from the Equilibrium Point
If the price is set too high, such as at P1, then the quantity produced will be Qs. The quantity demanded will be Qd. Since the quantity demanded is less than the quantity suppied there will be a oversupply problem. If the price is too low, then too little will be produced to meet demand at that price. This will cause a undersupply problem. Businesses responses to both these problems restores the quantity and the price to the equilibrium. In the case of oversupply, the businesses will soon have too much execess inventory, so they will lower prices to reduce this.
Vertical Supply Curve
It is sometimes the case that the supply curve is vertical. For example, the amount of land in the world can be considered fixed. In this case, no matter how much someone would be willing to pay for one more acre of land, the extra can not be created. Also, even if no one wanted all the land, it still would exist. These conditions create a vertical supply curve. In the short run near vertical supply curves are even more common. For example, if the Super Bowl is next week, increasing the number of seats in the stadium is almost impossible. The supply of tickets for the game can be considered vertical in this case. If the organizers of this event underestimated demand, then it may very well be the case that the price that they set is below the equilibrium price. In this case there will likely be people who paid the lower price who only value the ticket at that price, and people who could not get tickets, even though they would be willing to pay more. If some of the people who value the tickets less sell them to people who are willing to pay more (i.e. scalp the tickets), then the effective price will rise to the equilibrium price.
The below graph illustrates a vertical supply curve. When the demand 1 is in effect, the price will p1. When demand 2 is occurring, the price will be p2. Notice that at both values the quantity is Q. Since the supply is fixed, any shifts in demand will only effect price.
Other market forms
In a situation in which there are many sellers but a single monopoly supplier can adjust the supply and price of a good at will, the monopolist will adjust the price so that his profit is maximised given the amount that is demanded at that price. A similar analysis using supply and demand can be applied when a good has a single buyer, a monopsony, but many sellers.
Where there are both few buyers or few sellers, the theory of supply and demand cannot be applied because both decisions of the buyers and sellers are interdependent - changes in supply can affect demand and vice versa. Game theory can be used to analyse this kind of situation. See also oligopoly.
The supply curve does not have to be linear. However, if the supply is from a profit maximizing firm, it can be proven that supply curves are not downward sloping (i.e. if the price increases, the quantity supplied will not decrease). Supply curves from profit maximizing firms can be vertical or horizontal or upward sloping.
Standard microeconomic assumptions can not be used to prove that the demand curve is downward sloping. However, despite years of searching, no generally agreed upon example of a good that has an upward sloping demand curve has been found (also known as a giffen good). Non-economists sometimes think that this would not be the case for certain goods. For example, some people will buy a luxury car because it is expensive. In this case the good demanded is actually prestige, and not a car, so when the price of the luxury car decreases, it is actually changing the amount of prestige so the demand is not decreasing since it is a different good (see Veblen good).
Discrete Example
The above discussion of supply and demand can be thought of in terms of individual people interacting at a market. Suppose the following people exist:
There are many possible trades that would be mutually agreeable to both people, but not all of them will happen. For example, Cathy would be willing to trade with Fred for any price between $25 and $30. If the price is above $30, Cathy is not interested, since the price is too high. If the price is below $25, Fred is not interested since the price is too low. Of course, just because a trade is possible, doesn't mean it will happen. Each of the sellers will try and get as high of a price as possible, and each of the buyers will try and get as low of a price as possible.
- Alice is willing to pay $10 for a sack of potatoes.
- Bob is willing to pay $20 for a sack of potatoes.
- Cathy is willing to pay $30 for a sack of potatoes.
- Dan is willing to sell a sack of potatoes for $5.
- Emily is willing to sell a sack of potatoes for $15.
- Fred is willing to sell a sack of potatoes for $25.
Imagine that Cathy and Fred are bartering over the price. Fred offers $25 dollars for a sack of potatoes. Cathy is just about ready to agree when Emily offers to sell a sack of potatoes for $24 dollars. Fred is not willing to sell at $24 dollars, so he drops out. At this point, Dan can offer to sell for $12. Emily won't sell for that amount so it looks like the deal might go through. At this point however, Bob steps in and offers $14 dollars. At this point, we have two people who are willing to pay $14 dollars for a sack of potatoes (Cathy and Bob), but only one person (Dan) willing to sell for $14 dollars. So the price must go up because Cathy and Bob are both willing to pay more than $14 dollars. As soon as the price hits $15 dollars, Emily will be willing to sell so there are now two people willing to pay $15 dollars and two people willing to sell at $15 dollars so the trades can happen. But what about Fred and Alice? Well, Fred and Alice are not willing to trade with each other since Alice is only willing to pay $10 and Fred will not sell for any amount under $25. Alice can't outbid Cathy or Bob to try and purchase from Dan so Alice will not be able to get a trade with them. Fred can't underbid Dan or Emily so he will not be able to get a trade with Cathy. In otherwords, a stable equilbrium has been reached.
A supply and demand graph could also be drawn from this. The demand would be:
The supply would be:
- 1 person is willing to pay $30 (Cathy).
- 2 people are willing to pay $20 (Cathy and Bob).
- 3 people are willing to pay $10 (Cathy, Bob, and Alice).
And here is the graphs:
- 1 person is willing to sell for $5 (Dan).
- 2 people are willing to sell for $15 (Dan and Emily).
- 3 people are willing to sell for $25 (Dan, Emily, and Fred).
- See also: Microeconomics, Externalities, Taxes and Subsidies, Deadweight loss, Consumer and producer surplus, Consumer Theory, Rationing.
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Water resources are sources of water that are useful for to human beings in various ascpectd including , but not limited to:drinking, recreation, farming, and industry. Even though 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water, a majority of it is salt water and the supply of fresh water is so limited in many parts of the world that the shortage constitute a serious problem for the human inhabitants. It has been predicted that global scarcity of water resources will occur many decades before the much-heralded depletion of fossil fuel resources. Water scarcity is but one side of the problem; water quality is the other, in as much as a resource can also be lost through its degradation.The problem
Human populations in some areas (e.g. southern California, Israel, and Florida) are growing a 1 to 3% per year, while fresh water supplies are remaining constant or shrinking.
Most new available water supplies are contaminated with industrial waste, sewage or salt. Aquifers are already being rapidly used, so even ground water is no longer a practical solution.
Most purification plants use large amounts of oil or other fuel. Nuclear purification plants are politically unpopular. Solar purification plants require too much land and are very expensive.
The result
An increasing number of wars and civil disputes are occurring over water rights.
In the U.S.'s western region, this is not news. Water wars in the U.S. date from the western expansion of the 1820s, even though most of them were fought by private landowners. The historic cowboy range wars were over water rights. Land-theft and rustling were usually attempts to get compensation for or access to water. (They weren't kidding when they said 'There isn't room for both of us...')
Civil disputes in the U.S. also have a long history, especially in California, after the population expansion of the 1850s. Both San Francisco, California and Los Angeles, California engaged in lengthy negotiations, property acquisition, and litigation to secure water rights. San Francisco flooded a beautiful glacial valley, Tehatchapi, over the bitter protests of conservationists led by the Sierra Club. Los Angeles purchased Mono Lake, and drained it to dust, also over bitter protests.
In the Middle East, many of the wars, notably the Six-Day War, have been disputes over water. These are expected to escalate as industry and population increase in the region. In areas where law is less respected than in the U.S., we can expect either violence, or poverty.
Solutions
Conservation
One part of the solution is conservation. People will pay almost any amount for drinking water. However, far less water can sometimes be used for irrigation, wash water and industrial water.
World-wide, crops irrigated by ditches use 70% or more of available water. Changing to dry-land crops and sprinkler or drip irrigation can reduce agricultural water use by 60 to 90%.
About 15% of water use is industrial. Much industrial water is used for cleaning or cooling. Often the water can be settled, filtered and recycled. This reduces pollution of surface water while reducing use. In some cases, it is profitable for water providing authorities to share the costs of pollution control equipment for industries.
Many authorities say that the way to stop these abuses is simply to charge users the true costs of the water they use. Almost all areas subsidize farm and industrial uses of water by over-charging residential uses.
In cities, the largest waste of water is as run off during rainy seasons. Most roofs and storm sewers could preserve the water for use. In heavily urban southern California, some runoff is diverted to swamps in river deltas, to recharge aquifers and keep ocean water out of city wells.
Some areas of California and Israel use greywater systems, in which household wash water is recycled for irrigation and sewage processing.
A number of cities and water districts in California recycle sewage to standards that would make it usable for drinking or washing water. This "reclaimed water" is used for irrigation, recharging aquifers, or discharge into lakes.
Development
Desalination has long been used on ships, submarines and islands, where cost is no object. It has also been used to supply water to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. History of water supply at Guantanamo Bay: [1].
Desalination of brackish water is already commonplace in the U.S., where it is used to meet treaty obligations for river water entering Mexico.
Desalination of ocean water is common in the Middle East, where a number of countries use oil-fired stills to provide city drinking water.
The price of desalination is rapidly declining. A modern, large, efficient plant is within 20% of the cost of developing a new, local source of fresh water. Desalination stills now control pressure, temperature and brine concentrations to optimize the water extraction expense. Other methods of desalination include reverse osmosis and pressure barrier osmosis. Nuclear-powered desalination could be very economical on a large scale.
Importing water
Water has such a low value per pound that it is not usually profitable to import it.
The most effective way to "import" water is in the form of virtual water; that is, to import products that require large amounts of water to produce. A simple example is grain. It usually takes 1000 pounds of water to grow one pound of grain. Thus, each ton of imported grain saves 1000 tons of domestic water. This method is used by Israel, which imports most grain.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Water resources."
Synonyms: SupplySynonyms: provision (n), supplying (n), add (v), append (v), cater (v), furnish (v), issue (v), ply (v), provide (v), render (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: demand (n), recall (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to. |
Completeness | Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate. |
Condolence | Verb: condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament; with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow. |
Giving | Furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon. |
Provision | Supply, suppeditate; furnish; find, find one in; arm. |
Noun: provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention; (aid); resources; (means); groceries, grocery. | |
Store | Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche. |
Substitution | Verb: subs put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for. |
Support | Give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed. |
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Crosswords: Supply |
| English words defined with "supply": Stated supply, Supply and demand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "supply": BULK POWER SUPPLY ♦ combat day of supply ♦ declared supply voltage, designed full supply discharge ♦ full supply discharge ♦ intra-Community supply of services ♦ money supply growth M1, money supply M1 ♦ piped water supply ♦ required supply rate ♦ shaft-sinking power supply, standard day of supply, static uninterruptable power supply, Supply "to", Supply Chain, SUPPLY CLERK, Supply control programs, SUPPLY CONTROLLER, supply utilized ♦ uninterruptable power supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply ♦ Water Supply Outlook Product. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "supply": Supplyment. (references) |
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Screenplays | You should know by now that eating is forbidden. That's why we supply school dinners (The Beiderbecke Affair; writing credit: Alan Plater) Congratulations, Barney, and enjoy your prize - a lifetime supply of Duff Beer (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) A good supply of body bags (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) But, you do get this watch and a year's supply of turtle wax. What I want is to be left alone (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) After your supply factory is blown up and the Gestapo blame you and you still want to stay (Hogan's Heroes; writing credit: Gail Allen; Gwen Bagni) | |
Lyrics | If you can't supply (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) And supply my needs (Deep Inside; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) | |
Clever | God will supply all your real needs. (references; author: unknown) British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wagon Supply Train en Route (1898) Film 3: Solutions and People Water Supply and Sanitation in Development (1985) | |
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 | Truck mounted water supply purification equipment, used for flood and vector control in Laredo, Texas, 1954. Credit: CDC. |  | The Mansonia and Coquillettidia mosquitoes are distinguished by the radically modified siphon. These two genera insert their siphons into the hollow roots of aquatic plants in order to access their air supply. Credit: CDC. |
 | A Hercules C-130 aircraft lands at the South Pole Helping supply the geophysical and climatic monitoring facility. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | River boat MIDNIGHT SUN used to transport supplies on the Yukon River Used to supply crews on the 141st Meridian Work on the Alaska-Canada Boundary. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Survey launch and supply launch at Cross Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Live bait and fishing supply store. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Surface supply delivers unlimited air to the divers, but keeps them on a leash. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Fish and Wildlife Service Supply Vessel EIDER in the Aleutian Islands with moderate icing after a rough trip from the Pribilof Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Wrecked Taiwanese tuna vessel. Still had tons of tuna on board. Thousands of rats had taken over ship with relatively unlimited food supply. Credit: Small World. |  | Staff. Sgt Allen Yost, a fuels lab technician from the 354th Supply Squadron. |
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| "Power supply lines" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "Power supply lines at dusk in germany ." |
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Alexander Pope | Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! |
Arthur Schopenhauer | The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. |
Channing | Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. |
E. J. Hobsbawm | Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
Marcus T. Cicero | The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | From him the world is peopled with his descendants, who are all born infants, weak and helpless, without knowledge or understanding: but to supply the defects of this imperfect state, till the improvement of growth and age hath removed them, Adam and Eve, and after them all parents were, by the law of nature, under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such supply shall be furnished according to the contracts in force and at a rate which shall not be higher than that paid to the said works by German nationals. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | That very dear part of Emma, her fancy, received an amusing supply. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | When a man appears to be getting alarmingly ignorant, or stupid, they will sometimes refuse to supply him any longer |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was therefore a serious matter for each household to obtain its supply of water |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly had taken another dried fig from the supply in his pocket and was eating it slowly and noisily |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This I ventured to tell the author, and offered if he pleased to supply him with some additions |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | First look out for worms, and supply vacancies by planting anew |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Reduced blood flow decreases the brain's supply of oxygen. (references) | |
Another way might be to supply the missing protein as a medicine. (references) | ||
Inadequate supply of fresh air to the alveoli is called hypoventilation. (references) | ||
Business | Small retailers supply this segment. (references) | |
Supply and demand determine compensation. (references) | ||
Other countries supply the remaining six percent. (references) | ||
Children | Suriname | Families must supply uniforms, books, and miscellaneous supplies. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nevertheless, social services for children are in extremely short supply. (references) | |
Brazil | The city of Niteroi put in service 10 vans specifically for the use of persons with disabilities, but the supply of this service lagged behind the rising demand. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Sri Lanka | The ICRC in September 2000 replaced its relief and supply ship with a new vessel. (references) |
China | Citizens who supply large numbers of e-mail addresses to organizations abroad have been prosecuted. (references) | |
Pakistan | In July 2000, the Government ended its monopoly of newsprint supply and did not initiate new efforts to collect back taxes from selected newspapers. (references) | |
Economic History | Germany | Thus supply is met exclusively by imports. (references) |
Guyana | Guyana has a plentiful supply of low-skilled labor. (references) | |
Ecuador | In turn, this has hampered efforts to expand supply. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | The highest penalties are for doctors who supply false reports for money. (references) |
Brazil | They reported an unreliable supply of water and being fed spoiled food on occasion. (references) | |
Ghana | Medical facilities are inadequate and the prisons supply only the most basic medicines. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | In exchange, the parents receive monetary payment or a supply of clothes and food. (references) |
Political Economy | PHILIPPINES | Open market operations serve as the main policy tool to control money supply. (references) |
KUWAIT | Kuwait's money supply (M2) in June 2001 was 7.4 percent higher than its June 2000 level. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | These include the $60 million Greater Nakuru Water Supply. (references) |
Romania | VAT generally applies to the supply of goods, transfer of real estate, and services. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | This feature deprives firms of access to their own supply of hard currency for lengthy periods. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Come with a large supply. (references) |
Argentina | Be sure to have an ample supply of business cards. (references) | |
Kenya | Bottled LPG is available, but supply cannot always be guaranteed. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | There is no legislated or administrative minimum wage; rather, supply and demand determines compensation. (references) |
Tuvalu | It requires employers to provide an adequate potable water supply, basic sanitary facilities, and medical care. (references) | |
Nepal | The law permits strikes, except by employees in essential services such as water supply, electricity, and telecommunications. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Then there becomes a shortage, the supply goes down, and the price is forced up because there's less of whatever commodity or material we're talking about to go around. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By a judicious regulation of our trade with them we supply their wants, administer to their comforts, and gradually, as the game retires, draw them to us. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies--hunger, misery, and despair. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our supply of clean water is dwindling. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Next to the pursuit of peace, the really greatest challenge to the human family is the race between food supply and population increase. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Unfortunately, in the short term there are only a limited number of actions which can increase domestic supply. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The decision to continue supply of nuclear fuel to the Indian Tarapur reactors was sensitive to this effort. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Supply" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.15% of the time. "Supply" is used about 8,188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.15% | 5,826 | 1,675 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 23.19% | 1,899 | 4,503 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.65% | 463 | 12,704 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,188 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | Shenzhen Chiwan Petroleum Supply Base Company Limited | India | Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply Company Limited |
| Israel | Israel Cold Storage and Supply Company Limited | Norway | Havila Supply ASA |
| Pakistan | Karachi Electric Supply Corp Ltd | South Africa | DNA Supply Chain Investments Limited |
| USA | Eagle Supply Group, Inc. | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Supply, VA |
Expressions using "supply": air supply ♦ ammunition supply ♦ ammunition supply point ♦ available supply rate ♦ backup power supply ♦ bill of supply ♦ building integrated timing supply ♦ building supply house ♦ building supply store ♦ combat day of supply ♦ Committee on Assurances of Supply ♦ day of supply ♦ declared supply voltage ♦ designed full supply discharge ♦ elastic supply ♦ electricity supply ♦ electricity supply system ♦ energy supply ♦ essential supply ♦ excess supply ♦ food supply ♦ Fort Supply ♦ fuel supply ♦ full supply discharge ♦ gas supply ♦ goods in short supply ♦ in short supply ♦ labor supply ♦ labour supply ♦ lack of supply ♦ law of supply and demand ♦ level of supply ♦ liberal supply of coal ♦ logistical supply ♦ main supply route ♦ mains water supply ♦ maintenance and supply troops ♦ material supply ♦ medical supply ♦ Model for Energy Supply Systems and their General Environmental Impact ♦ money supply ♦ money supply growth M1 ♦ money supply M1 ♦ national food supply ♦ one day's supply ♦ Optimized Supply Chain and Reactivity ♦ oxygen supply ♦ parts supply ♦ piped water supply ♦ power supply ♦ power supply cable ♦ power supply system ♦ required supply rate ♦ school supply ♦ source of supply ♦ standard day of supply ♦ stated supply ♦ static uninterruptable power supply ♦ supply a gap ♦ supply a want ♦ supply and demand ♦ supply base ♦ supply camp ♦ supply chain integration ♦ supply chamber ♦ supply closet ♦ supply depot ♦ supply industry ♦ supply line ♦ supply lines ♦ supply main ♦ supply management ♦ supply of food ♦ supply of men ♦ supply of money ♦ supply of services carried out free of charge ♦ supply of the same type ♦ supply officer ♦ supply pins ♦ supply pipe ♦ supply plane ♦ supply point ♦ supply pressure ♦ supply problem ♦ supply route ♦ supply sergeant ♦ supply ship ♦ supply system ♦ supply tanker ♦ supply teacher ♦ supply terminal ♦ supply terminals ♦ supply the place of ♦ supply undertaking ♦ supply utilized ♦ supply with ♦ supply with blood ♦ supply with nuclear power ♦ supply with nuclear weapons ♦ supply with tools ♦ supply with water. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "supply": supply-and-demand, supply-and-fit, supply-base, supply-bound, supply-cables, supply-constrained, supply-contract, supply-craft, supply-demand, supply-led, supply-line, supply-lines, supply-only, supply-port, supply-related, supply-room, supply-route, supply-side, supply-side economics, supply-siders, supply-system, supply-teacher. | |
Ending with "supply": food-supply, over-supply, self-supply, water-supply. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pet supply | 8,890 | aquarium supply | 1,539 |
party supply | 8,306 | wedding supply | 1,422 |
art supply | 7,172 | supply | 1,368 |
cat supply | 6,058 | school supply | 1,346 |
garden supply | 5,947 | camping supply | 1,339 |
office supply | 4,810 | air supply | 1,236 |
dog supply | 4,470 | scrapbook supply | 1,174 |
pool supply | 4,304 | boat supply | 1,150 |
medical supply | 2,927 | supply chain management | 1,139 |
beauty supply | 2,877 | luau party supply | 1,024 |
birthday party supply | 2,687 | party supply store | 1,011 |
tattoo supply | 2,478 | plumbing supply | 1,010 |
restaurant supply | 2,216 | scrapbooking supply | 1,010 |
craft supply | 1,990 | retail store supply | 970 |
tractor supply | 1,970 | jewelry supply | 959 |
swimming pool supply | 1,948 | electrical supply | 902 |
emergency supply | 1,837 | tractor supply company | 900 |
sally beauty supply | 1,774 | staple office supply | 892 |
power supply | 1,681 | building supply | 891 |
puppy supply | 1,594 | rv supply | 873 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "supply"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voorraad, lewer (deliver, furnish, liver), inlewer (convey, deliver, furnish, hand, hand over, pass), aflewer (deliver, furnish). (various references) | |
Albanian | siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, ensure, find, fit out, furnish, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, reassure, satisfy, secure, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), shpërblej (award, be quits, crown, disburse, guerdon, recompense, recoup, refund, remunerate, repair, repay, requite, reward, solve), zëvendësues i përkohshëm (supernumerary), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, emergency, fountain, fund, garment, hoard, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, ordinary, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, spare, stand by, stock, stockpile, store), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement), pajisje (amenities, capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, fit out, fitment, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, gadget, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, tackle), pajis (accoutre, arm oneself, endow, endue, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, fix up, furnish, habilitate, indue, outfit, rig out, set, store), ofertë (bidding, proposal, proposition, tender), nozulloj (furnish), nozullim (furnishing, provisions), furnizoj (deliver, equip, equip with, feed, fit out, furnish, lay on, outfit, provide with, purvey, victual), furnizim (feed, furnishing, providing, provision, purveyance). (various references) | |
Arabic | معدات (equipment, gear, kit, outfit, paraphernalia, things, tools), مؤن (commissariat, provision, provisions, ration, stock, store, subsistence, supplies, viands, victuals), غذى (feed, nourish, nurse, nurture, stoke, sustain, underfeed), تمون (maunder), تغذية (alimentation, feeding, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, sustenance), تزويد (equipping, outfit), تزود (provide, stock, tool up), تجهيزات (appointment, equipment, fitting, fixture, outfit, rigging), سد حاجة, زود (accommodate, assort, button, cap, chock, cover, eke out, equip, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, tool up), عين (allocate, appoint, assign, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, tap), الذخيرة (ammunition), إعتماد مالي (fund), أغذية (stodge), أشبع رغبة (pacify, pamper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | запасявам (stock, stock up, store), подавам (feed, hand, hold out, lay, pass, pitch, prefer, present, reach, tender, thrust out), подвоз (haulage, supply-port, transport), подвозвам (haul, transport), подхранвам (aliment, fatten up, feed, fodder), попълвам (bridge, complete, fill in, fill up, make out, make up, replenish), приток (affluence, affluent, afflux, confluent, feeder, indraft, indraught, influent, influx, subsidiary stream, tributary), предлагане (bid, offering), продоволствие (victualling, victuals), ловко (ably, knowingly), доставям (accommodate, afford, furnish, get, give, haul, heel, provide, purvey, rustle up), запас (army reserve, arrearage, backlog, fund, hoard, reserve, reservoir, stock, store), удовлетворявам (gratify, indulge, please, satisfy, suffice), запълвам (engage, fill in, fill out, stop up), замествам (act for, deputize, preempt, represent, substitute, supersede), захранвам (feed), захранване, наличност (availability, effective, presence, stock), гъвкаво, раболепно, резерва (backlog, bank, limitation, qualification, qualifier, reservation, reserve, stockpile), снабдявам (accommodate, arm, cater, feed, find, fit out, fit up, fuel, furnish, issue, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, set up, stock, suit), снабдяване (delivery, equipment, finding, fit out, procuration, provision, purveyance), еластично. (various references) | |
Chinese | 補給 , 供給 (furnish, provide), 供应 (GLUT, Provision, provisions, Supplied, supplies, supplying), 供應 (to provide), 供 (offer, sacrificial offering). (various references) | |
Czech | zásobovat (feed, ply), zásobování (catering, purveyance), zásoba (bank, fund, hoard, reserve, stock, stockpile, store), poskytnout (administer, afford, extend, furnish, give, grant, house, provide, render, tender, volunteer), příspìvek (contribution, subsidy), opatřit (fit out, furnish, get, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, raise, stock, store, take out), nahradit (compensate, make good, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supplant), doplnit (amend, complete, fill in, piece out, recruit, refill, replenish, stock), dodatek (addition, appendix, clause, complement, rider, supplement, tailpiece), dodat (add, deliver, furnish, impart), dodávka (delivery, pickup, waggon, wagon). (various references) | |
Danish | udbud (adjudication, automatic public tendering, call for proposals), tilfoersel (alimentation, etc.), input, other forms of precipitation, sublimation, various processes which operate to increase the mass of a glacier or of a snow-field (deposition of snow), påfyldning (back-filling, construction of an embankment, delivery, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filling, forming of an embankment, loading, nursing), forsyne en boghandel (stock), elforsyning, assortere en boghandel (stock), aflevere (deliver, furnish). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorziening (fixture, provision), bezorging (arrival, arrivals), bevoorrading (arrival, arrivals), aanvoer (arrival, arrivals). (various references) | |
Esperanto | provizo, provizi (provide), provizado (arrival, arrivals), liveri (deliver, furnish), alveturigi (bring, convey), alportado (arrival, arrivals). (various references) | |
Faeroese | lata (allow, cause, dedicate, deliver, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, tell), greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, comb, curl, define, deliver, determine, do, explain, furnish), gera út (accommodate, equip, provide), flýggja (deliver, flee, furnish, run away), búgva út (accommodate, equip, provide). (various references) | |
Farsi | فراورده (Product, Production), موجودی (Store), لزوم (Exigency, Incumbency, Necessity, Need), تهیه کردن (Administer, Afford, Cater, Furnish, Get, Process, Purvey), تولیدکردن (Beget, Breed, Generate, Inbreed, Manufacture, Procreate, Produce, Raise, Turnout), تدارک دیدن , عرضه داشتن (Proffer), اذوقه (Provender), رساندن (Broadcast, Convey, Extend, Forward, Give, Impart, Imply, Putin, Transmit, Understand), دادن به . (various references) | |
Finnish | tarjonta (fetal presentation, foetal presentation, presentation). (various references) | |
French | fournir, fourniture, ravitaillement (food supplies, supplying), réserve, provision, pourvoir, munir, alimentation (feed supply, sublimation). (various references) | |
Frisian | oanfier (arrival, arrivals), leverje (deliver, furnish). (various references) | |
German | Versorgung (accommodation, arrival, arrivals, care, feed, input, ordnance, providing, provision), versorgen (accommodate, care for, feed, groom, keep, look after, maintain, provide, provide for, purvey, serve, settle, settle down, support, take care of, to supply), liefern (deliver, furnish, give, provide, purvey, to deliver, to deliver (from), to furnish, to provide, to supply, yield), zuführung (feed, feeding, feed-pipe, sheetfeed, supplying), Vorrat (fund, hoard, provision, repertoire, reserve, stock, stockpile, store), versehen (aberration, accommodate, discharge, equip, error, fit, hold, inadvertence, look after, mistake, occupy, omit, overlook, oversight, perform, provide, provided, see to, stock, take care of), angebot (bargain, bid, estimate, invitation, offer, proffer, proposal, quote, range, tender). (various references) | |
Greek | προμήθεια (commission, kickback, poundage, procurement, provision, purveyance, rake off, stores). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זינה (feed, feeding), ספיקה (discharge, flow, need, possibility, satisfaction, sufficiency), ציוד (equipment, gear, kit, outfit, rig, tackle), הספק (capacity, output, power), הספקה (maintenance, provision), הצע (bid, offer), סניקה (delivery), אספקה (provision, provisions, purveyance), מלאי (inventory, reserve, stock, stockpile, store), לסנוק (deliver, push, remove), לספק (furnish, give, please, provide, purvey, satisfy), לציד (arm, equip, fit out, fit up, furnish, outfit, provide, set up, stock), להספיק (be sufficient, enable, succeed, suffice), להציע (hold out, offer, proffer, propose, submit, suggest, tender, unfold), לפרנס (keep, maintain, provide, support), כלכלה (economics, economy, keep, living, maintenance, provision). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kínálat (bid, bidding, offer), készlet (backlog, hoard, kit, outfit, resource, resources, set, stock, suit, suite), ellátmány (commissariat, supplies), ellátás (accommodations, alimentation, attendance, catering, electrification, fare, logistics, maintenance, providing, provision, scaling, service, sustenance, tending), beszerzés (acquisition, procuration, procurement), utánpótlás (after-growth, life-line, logistics, new supplies, refill, resupply, second line, succour), szolgáltatás (furnishing, provision, service), szállítmány (arrival, bulk, cargo, carriage, shipment), simulékonyan (pliantly, sleekly), ruganyosan, helyettes (acting, alternate, assistant, deputy, fill in, lieutenant, locum tenens, proxy, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, vice), hajlékonyan (pliantly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemasokan, mempersediakan (equip, funds), set aside (foods), memberikan (cede, give, hand over), membekalkan. (various references) | |
Italian | rifornimento (accommodation, fueling, provision, supplying, watering), fornitura (delivery, equipment, furnishing, outfit, providing, provision, supplying), fornire (adduce, afford, cater, contribute, deal, deliver, endow, equip, furnish, give, outfit, present, produce, proffer, provide, put up, stock, stock up, store, to deliver, to provide, yield), provvedere (arrange, arrange for, cater, fend, get ready, minister, provide, provide for, provide oneself, purvey, stock, store, take care), offerta (bid, bidding, donation, offer, offered, offering, tender). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 給与 (allowance, grant). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうよ (allowance, desperation, extremity, grant), きょうきゅう (delivering from sin, provision, succor), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), のうふ (farm woman, payment, peasant), のうにゅう (payment), でまわり, ほきゅう (catch, grounder, replenishment, supplying), サプライ , ちょうたつ (facileness, fluency, provision, raising). (various references) | |
Korean | 공급 (supplies, supplying). (various references) | |
Manx | stoyr (deposit, depot, fund, hoard, repertory, repository, still room, stock, store, storehouse, storeroom), jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, determine, divine, make out, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, think out, work out, work out as position), cur cooid da. (various references) | |
Norwegian | levere (deliver, furnish, hand). (various references) | |
Papiamen | entregá (deliver, furnish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | upplysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fornecer (accommodate, cater, deliver, furnish, give, provide, purvey, serve, store, to supply, yield), abastecimento (fill, provision, purveyance, refuelling, store, supplies, victualling), provisão (budget, food, fund, provision, ration, reserve, reservoir, stock, store), prover (furnish, give, outfit, prime, provide, replenish, stock), fornecimento (ministration, provision, purveyance, store), abastecer (bunker, feed, fill up, fuel, provide, provision, refuel, stock, store, victual). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | fornecerão (will supply). (various references) | |
Romanian | stoc (fund, hoard, reserve, stock, store), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), aduce (accompany, adduce, afford, bear, bring, bring in, cause, collect, convey, drive, fetch, furnish, gather, get, lead, produce, secure, take, transport, yield), alimenta (feed, fill, inflame, nourish, nurture, Stoke, support), aproviziona (furnish, provide, provide for, provision, recruit, stock, store), aprovizionare (provision, purveyance), credit (accommodation, credit, repute), cu supleţe, dota (endow), fond (background, bottom, content, elements, essence, field, fund, gist, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, spine, staple, stock, substance, sum), aducţie (adduction), furnizare (provision, purveyance), umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse), livra (deliver), ofertã (bid, offer, offering, proffer, proposal, proposition, tender), pensie (pension), procura (acquire, bear, bring, cause, find oneself, get, obtain, procure, raise, secure), provizie (eatables, hoard, ration, store, victuals), provizii (food, larder, magazine, purveyance, ration, reserve, store, Tommy), rentã (rent, revenue, settlement), rezervã (aloofness, budget, chill, condition, deposit, distance, exception, hoard, offishness, qualification, refill, reservation, reserve, restraint, retention, side-room, stand by, standoffishness, stipulation, stock, store, substitute), furniza (afford, bring, deliver, expedite, find, give, instruct, provide, purvey). (various references) | |
Russian | снабжение (communication, equipment, purveyance), снабжать (accommodate, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, provide, serve with, store), замещать (act for, fill in, fill out, override, replace, stand in for, stand up to, subbed, subrogate, substitute), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, hoard, margin, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, store of), поставлять поставка (supplying), поставлять (cater, purvey), подвоз (transport), подводить, подвод (admission, delivery), подача (admission, delivery, feed, feeding, innings, pitch, transmission, travel), подавать (dish out, dish up, feed, filed, hand in, present, send up, serve, serve upon, serve with, served on, served upon, submit, submits, submitting), питание (aliment, alimentation, aliments, alimony, board, feed, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance). (various references) | |
Scottish | teagair (collect, cover, protect, shelter), liubhair (deliver, furnish, give to, surrender). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snabdevanje (provision), snabdeti (cater, equip, feed, furnish, gird, heel, provide, purvey, ration, stock, stock up), zaliha (backlog, hoard, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store), zadovoljiti (fulfill, gratify, indulge, please, satisfy, suit), pribor (accessories, appurtenance, equipment, implement, materials, paraphernalia, prop, properties, supplies, tackle, tackling, utensil), ponuda (bid, offer, proffer, tender), opskrbiti (endue), obezbediti (assure, ensure, insure, provide, put through, safeguard, safeguard against, secure), namiriti (feed, satisfy, settle). (various references) | |
Spanish | suministro (delivery, furnishing, provision, provisions, purveyance, ration), suministrar (accommodate, furnish, provide, provision, purvey), proveer (accommodate, cater, furnish, provide, provision, purvey, rig out, stock), oferta (bid, gift, offer, present, presentation, proffer, proposal, proposition, tender), entregar (concede, consign, convey, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, spend, submit, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield), aprovisionamiento (arrival, arrivals). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillförsel (feed, provision), leverera (deliver, furnish, purvey), förse (endue, feed, fit, furnish, invest, issue, kit out, kit up, provide, serve, supplie, vest), förmedla (bring about, connect, effect, mediate, negotiate). (various references) | |
Turkish | sunu, sağlama (accommodation, enlistment, obtainment, procuration, procuring, proof, providing, provision), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, yield), sağlayan (provider), karşılama (compensation, greeting, meeting, reception, recompense, recuperation, welcome), ikmal malzemesi, ikmal (completion, condition, replenishment), karşılamak (answer, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, fulfil, fulfill, greet, make amends, meet, provide, provision, receive, recompense, recoup, redress, satisfy, take, welcome), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out), mevcut (actual, adsum, attendant, available, existent, existing, in hand, physical, present, prevalent, stock, store, substantial, total, total number of attendance, visible), esnek olarak, erzak (provisions, rations, stores, victual, victuals), elastik olarak, besleme (alimentation, feeding, handmaid, lead in, nourishment, nurse, nurture, nutrition, servant girl, sustenance, sustentation), başkasının yerine bakan, bütçe (budget, income, the estimates), arz (demonstration, earth, land, offer, preferment, presentation, soil, submission), ihtiyacı karşılamak (answer the purpose, be adequate, meet a need, satisfy a need, serve the purpose), ödenek (allocation, allowance, appropriation, award, fund, grant, grant-in-aid, pork), levazım (impedimenta, materials, munition, stores, supplies), yerini doldurmak (recoup, sub, supply the place of), miktar (amount, deal, measure, number, portion, proportion, quanta, quantitative, quantity, quantum, sum), tedarik (procuration, procurement), tedarik eden, tedarik etmek (accommodate smb. with, purvey), temin etmek (assure, cater, cater for, insure, make sure, procure, promise, provide, provide with, warrant), uysalca (amenably, facilely, gently, meekly), uyumlu biçimde, vekil (administrator, alternate, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), verme (conferment, evolution, lodgment, rendering), yerine geçen kimse (incomer, replacement, substitute, surrogate), karşılayan. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ьpjьnetmek (provide). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відшкодовувати (atone, compensate, offset, redress, refund, reimburse, remedy, repay, restitute), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, hoard, holding, margin, reserve, spare, stockpile, store), постачати (accommodate, administer, administrate, assort, feed, fit up, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide, set up, stock, store), постачання (allowance, procurement, provision, purveyance), поставка (purveyance), доставляти (bring, bring round, deliver, take over). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tiếp tế nguồn dự trữ, sự cung cấp (feed), quỵ luỵ (basely, knee, menial, subservient), mềm (cushiony, ductile, flabby, flaccid, limber, limp, loose, mushy, soft, supple, yielding), kho cung cấp, dễ uốn mềm mỏng luồn cúi (supple), đồ dự trữ (store). (various references) | |
Welsh | diwallu (satisfy), cyflenwi, cyflenwad. (various references) | |
Zulu | -diliva (deliver, furnish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. zal. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aplestiam, conpleam, conpleamus, conpleas, conpleat, conpleatur, conplebant, conplebantur, conplebis, conplebit, conplebitur, conplebo, conplebunt, conplebuntur, conplens, conplent, conplentes, conplerentur, conpleret, conpleretur, conplessent, conplesset, conplesti, conpleta, conpletae, conpletam, conplete, conpleti, conpletis, conpletum, conpleturus, conpletus, conpleverat, conpleverint, conpleveris, conpleverit, conplevero, conpleverunt, conplevit, conplevitque, copia, copiae, copiam, copias, exorno, fenera, fenerabis, fenerabit, fenerans, fenerantur, fenerare, fenerat, fenerator, feneratori, feneratur, feneraverunt, feneravi, feneravit, ministrabant, ministrabat, ministrabit, ministrabitis, ministrabitur, ministrabunt, ministrando, ministrandum, ministrans, ministrant, ministrantes, ministrantia, ministrantibus, ministrantium, ministrare, ministrarent, ministraret, ministraretis, ministraretur, ministrari, ministrasti, ministrat, ministrata, ministrate, ministratio, ministrationem, ministrationum, ministratur, ministraverint, ministraverit, ministraverunt, ministravimus, ministravit, ministrent, ministret, ministretis, ministro, praebe, praebebant, praebebantur, praebebat, praebebis, praebebisque, praebebit, praebebo, praebens, praebente, praebeo, praebeo, prebeo, praebere, praebes, praebet, praebete, praebita, praebitam, praebitionis, praebuerat, praebuerit, praebuerunt, praebui, praebuisti, praebuistis, praebuit, praebuitque, providere, subdidit, subdita, subditae, subditas, subditi, subditis, subdito, subditos, subditum, subditus, subditusque, subministrabunt, subministratum, subministravit, subministret, sufficere, sufficio, suggero, suppleam, suppleat, supplere, supplesti, supplet, suppleta, suppleverunt. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | onstal. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | supplier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de qeoV mou plhrwsei pasan creian umwn kata ton plouton autou en doxh en cristw ihsou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deus autem meus impleat omne desiderium vestrum secundum divitias suas in gloria in Christo Iesu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And my God fil alle youre desire, by hise richessis in glorie in Crist Jhesu. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | My god fulfill all youre nedes thorow his glorious riches in Iesu Christ. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang tanan ninyong kinahanglanon igahatag kaninyo sa akong Dios sumala sa iyang mga bahandi sa himaya diha kang Cristo Jesus. |
| Croatian | A Bog moj ispunit æe svaku vašu potrebu po bogatstvu svome, velièanstveno, u Kristu Isusu. |
| Danish | Men min Gud skal efter sin Rigdom fuldelig give eder alt, hvad I have nødig, i Herlighed i Kristus Jesus. |
| Dutch | Doch mijn God zal naar Zijn rijkdom vervullen al uw nooddruft, in heerlijkheid, door Christus Jezus. |
| Finnish | Mutta minun Jumalani on rikkautensa mukaisesti täyttävä kaikki teidän tarpeenne kirkkaudessa, Kristuksessa Jeesuksessa. |
| French | Et mon Dieu pourvoira à tous vos besoins selon sa richesse, avec gloire, en Jésus Christ. |
| German | Mein Gott aber fülle aus alle eure Notdurft nach seinem Reichtum in der Herrlichkeit in Christo Jesu. |
| Haitian Creole | Bondye ki rich anpil la va ban nou tou sa nou bezwen nan Jezikri. |
| Hungarian | Az én Istenem pedig be fogja tölteni minden szükségeteket az Õ gazdagsága szerint dicsõségesen a Krisztus Jézusban. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah yang saya sembah, yang melimpah dengan kekayaan dalam Kristus Yesus, akan memenuhi segala keperluanmu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Tuhanku akan mencukupkan segala kekuranganmu menurut kekayaan-Nya dengan kemuliaan-Nya di dalam Kristus Yesus. |
| Latvian | Bet mans Dievs savâ bagâtîbâ lai piepilda visas jûsu vçlçðanâs Jçzus Kristus godîbâ! |
| Maori | A ma toku Atua e mea kia hua nga mea katoa e matea ana e koutou, kia rite ki te nui o tona kororia, i roto i a Karaiti Ihu. |
| Norwegian | Og min Gud skal efter sin rikdom fylle all eders trang i herlighet i Kristus Jesus. |
| Rumanian | Wi Dumnezeul meu sq kngrijeascq de toate trebuinyele voastre, dupq bogqyia Sa, kn slavq, kn Isus Hristos. |
| Shuar | Winia Yúsrusha ti pénkeran Núkap takakui. Atumsha Jesukrístunu ajasu asarum Yus seamniaitrume. Tura Yuska ti takakna nujai Ashí atsumarmena nuna suramsattarme. |
| Spanish | Mi Dios, pues, suplirá toda necesidad vuestra, conforme a sus riquezas en gloria en Cristo Jesús. |
| Swedish | Så skall ock min Gud, efter sin rikedom, i fullt mått och på ett härligt sätt i Kristus Jesus giva eder allt vad I behöven. |
| Uma | Uma bisa kuhiwili kalompe' nono-ni ompi'. Alata'ala to kupue', Hi'a-damo to mpakagana hawe'ea kaparaluua-ni, ntuku' ka'uaa' -na to uma mowo kabohe-na, hi posidaia' -ni hante Kristus Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "supply": supplying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "supply": oversupply, resupply, undersupply. (additional references) | |
Words containing "supply": oversupplying, resupplying. (additional references) | |
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"Supply" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shply, stuppy, suply, supplie, uply. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "supply" (pronounced suplī") |
| 5 | s u p l ī" | misapply, oversupply, resupply. |
| 4 | -u p l ī" | apply, reply. |
| 3 | -p l ī" | comply, imply, ply. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-p-p-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: pulps, pulpy. | |
-2 letters: plus, pulp, puls, pups, yups. | |
-3 letters: ply, pul, pup, pus, sly, spy, sup, ups, yup. | |
-4 letters: up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-p-p-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: polypus. | |
+2 letters: platypus, polypous, resupply, supplely, uppishly. | |
+3 letters: polypuses, pompously, purposely, supplying. | |
+4 letters: oversupply, platypuses, populously, suppletory, supposably, supposedly. | |
+5 letters: polyphagous, polyphonous, purposively, resupplying, superplayer, suppliantly, undersupply, unstoppably. | |
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