supply
/səˈplaɪ/ sustantivo B1En español: oferta, abasto, suministración, subministración
- The act of supplying.
- An amount of something supplied. · A supply of good drinking water is essential.· She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
- The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself. · Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.· The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
- Provisions. · They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
- An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. · to vote supplies
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Plural supplies
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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So, my dear mother, I am going at once to ask Franz to lend me the small sum I shall require to supply my present wants.”
“It is humiliating,” said he, “thus to receive money given grudgingly,—an uncertain supply which may soon fail.
Have we reached the limits of what reason can supply?”
The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I was probably on the right track.
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