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supply and demand
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Supply and demand
(gcide) | Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. Supplies.
1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker.
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2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
or want. Specifically:
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(a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised
supply of horsemen." --Shak.
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(b) The food, and the like, which meets the daily
necessities of an army or other large body of men;
store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was
discontented for lack of supplies.
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(c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or
Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures;
generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
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(d) A person who fills a place for a time; one who
supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a
clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
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Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a
pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.
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Supply and demand. (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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