Noun adequate supplies of fresh water He bought a month's supply of cigarettes. They took a month's worth of supplies on the camping trip. The town is in need of basic medical supplies. a store that sells art supplies The state is trying to disrupt the supply of illegal drugs. The storm interrupted the town's electricity supply. Verb The company supplied the necessary money. You'll have to supply your own food. See More
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Without a reliable vaccine supply, there’s no way to ensure all children are vaccinated. Awi Federgruen, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022 That should take away from supply, potentially supporting prices. Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 President Joe Biden on Thursday took a political victory lap after railway companies and unions reached a tentative labor agreement overnight -- averting a strike that threatened to paralyze the nation's supply chain and transportation rail service. Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2022 Authors said world leaders needed to coordinate with each other on policies including travel protocols, testing, public health mitigation measures, commodity supply chains, data and reporting systems, and public messaging. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022 Phishing emails were the most common cyber incident (65%), followed by supply chain attacks that arose from a vendor (62%). Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022 As distribution outlets tighten, sales teams dwindle and supply chain interruptions continue, consolidation makes sense to provide more options to more consumers at a lower cost. Beth Demmon, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022 Likewise, many building supplies are shipped via train, ranging from lumber to cement, so there could be shortages of these materials at home supply stores. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2022 Albuquerque’s municipal supply is entitled to as much as 15 billion gallons of San Juan-Chama water every year.The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
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The newest space offers dentistry services of all kinds, but also can supply cosmetic medical services, including breast augmentation, liposuction, Brazilian butt lifts and more. Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 23 Aug. 2022 An acre foot is enough water to cover an acre a foot deep or supply about two and a half average households a year in San Diego. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 The increase in sales resulted in a spike in demand for aluminum cans, which caused prices to soar and supply to be at a premium. Richard Howells, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 Detroit ACE will work alongside citizens and community groups already at work on alleys and will commission artists and supply creative support. Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2022 Americans and Europeans shouldn’t expect a significant change in prices or supply any time soon. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022 Lastly, nutrition through a balanced diet and/or dietary supplements can help supply the necessary building blocks, essential vitamins and minerals, and energy for healthy hair. Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 27 June 2022 Local authorities began restricting water supplies in March, as the three dams that help supply the city dried up. Marcos Martínez Chacón, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2022 An Incident Management Team is expected to arrive Monday to assume management of the wildfire and supply additional resources and personnel, InciWeb said in a release. Elizabeth Wolfe And Joe Sutton, CNN, 13 June 2022 See More
Middle English supplien "to fill up, accomplish, discharge (an office)," borrowed from Middle French soupplier "to add what is lacking to" (also souppleer, suploier "to make up for [a lack, deficiency]," suppleer a, soupplir "to replace"), going back to Latin supplēre "to fill up, complete, raise (a military unit, crew) to its full complement, make good a deficiency in," from sub-sub- + plēre "to fill" — more at full entry 1
Note: Though the French verb receives its semantic start with Latin supplēre, none of the great variety of formal outcomes appear to be directly traceable to it. Variants such as suploier and soupplier have evidently been crossed with outcomes of supplicāre "to sue for forgiveness, supplicate" (see also suppliant entry 1). The form suppleer, which may be directly behind Modern French suppléer, appears to have been both latinized (after supplēre) and conformed to verbs such as créer. The variant soupplir suggests the general Romance re-formation *supplīre (compare Old Occitan and Spanish suplir, Italian sopperire).