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supply 1. Economics a. willingness and ability to offer goods and services for sale b. the amount of a commodity that producers are willing and able to offer for sale at a specified price 2. a grant of money voted by a legislature for government expenses, esp those not covered by other revenues 3. (in Parliament and similar legislatures) the money voted annually for the expenses of the civil service and armed forces 4. a source of electrical energy, gas, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then, as we have many wants, and many persons are needed to supply them, one takes a helper for one purpose and another for another; and when these partners and helpers are gathered together in one habitation the body of inhabitants is termed a State. For this purpose, as early as 1796, the government sent out agents to establish rival trading houses on the frontier, so as to supply the wants of the Indians, to link their interests and feelings with those of the people of the United States, and to divert this important branch of trade into national channels. A little reflection will explain why along the rising coast of the western side of South America, no extensive formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the supply of sediment must for ages have been great, from the enormous degradation of the coast-rocks and from muddy streams entering the sea. |
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