supply : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures
  building supply house.
  

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• noun a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures
  building supply house.
  

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• noun the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks
  

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• (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. U.S.

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• . (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.

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• noun a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed
  

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• noun a closet for storing supplies
  

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• noun a route over which supplies can be delivered
  supply line.
  

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• noun a commissioned officer responsible for logistics
  

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• noun a route over which supplies can be delivered
  supply line.
  

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• noun ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
  tender.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongiæ.

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• noun the school of economic theory that stresses the costs of production as a means of stimulating the economy; advocates policies that raise capital and labor output by increasing the incentive to produce
  

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• noun a facility that provides a source of water
  water; water system.
  
  • the town debated the purification of the water supply
  • first you have to cut off the water

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Wa"ter sup*ply"

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1. A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

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