supply

Definition:
1. An amount of something available for use.
2. Offering goods and services for sale.
3. The activity of supplying or providing something.
4. Provide or furnish with.
5. Circulate or distribute or equip with.
6. Provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.

Use 'supply' in a sentence:

• 1. Food is in short supply all over the country.
• 2. Local schools supply many of the volunteers.
• 3. We don't have an endless supply of money, you know.
• 4. Prices change according to supply and demand.
• 5. The water supply is unsafe.
• 6. They believed that controlling the money supply would reduce inflation.
• 7. The food supplies are inadequate to meet the needs of the hungry.
• 8. Normally, when demand and supply are out of sync, you either increase the supply, or you adjust the price mechanism.
• 9. Sore nipples can inhibit the milk supply.
• 10. More food supplies are ready for immediate dispatch.
• 11. Exploitable raw materials were in short supply.
• 12. Books were in short supply.
• 13. The supply of money in circulation was drastically reduced overnight.
• 14. The electricity supply had been cut off.
• 15. Our water supply has been cut off.
• 16. There is a plentiful supply of arms on the black market.
• 17. The electricity supply here is quite erratic.
• 18. Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.
• 19. Demand is outstripping supply.
• 20. The heart of the problem is supply and demand.
• 21. We cannot guarantee adequate supplies of raw materials.
• 22. The electricity supply has been cut off at the mains.
• 23. Demand has far outstripped supply of qualified teachers.
• 24. She denies possessing the drug with intent to supply.
• 25. We have had problems with the supply of raw materials to the factory.
• 26. The main electricity supply had been sabotaged by the rebels.
• 27. Soldiers get training setting up supply lines and building roads.
• 28. There is an abundant supply of cheap labour.
• 29. Demand for the new model is outrunning supply.
• 30. We take having an endless supply of clean water for granted.
• 31. Basic foodstuffs were in short supply.
• 32. Good agricultural land is in short supply.
• 33. Supplies are running low.
• 34. Our supplies were running out.
• 35. The company has won a contract to supply books and materials to schools.
• 36. Connection to the gas supply was delayed for three days.
• 37. We are very much aware of the lack of food supplies.
• 38. They are at the end of their food supply.
• 39. Supplies of food are almost exhausted.
• 40. Within three days they had exhausted their supply of food.
• 41. Demand is exceeding supply.
• 42. A change in the money supply brings a corresponding change in expenditure.
• 43. We supply the travel ticket for you and your cycle.
• 44. Water supplies to the house are at low pressure.
• 45. Please supply the following details: name, age and sex.
• 46. The electric armour runs off the tank's power supply.
• 47. The UN has agreed to allow the supply of emergency aid.
• 48. We're on short rations until fresh supplies arrive.
• 49. It is good practice to supply a written report to the buyer.
• 50. Their aim was to block guerrilla supply lines.
• 51. Supply and demand on the currency market will generally balance.