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supplies
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[ noun ] (finance,business) a store or supply (especially of food or clothing or arms)
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)When he needs money to buy something like , say , the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable_patch , he takes_a_flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)When he was in the war , he was in Law or Supplies or something like that , and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals - just like the one we sent_in for Trig - and go_away with a real glow . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town '' . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)When Napoleon 's ship had borne him to Elba , French wines had started to cross the Channel , the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years , but the supplies had not_yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)Supplies of sheet_metal were neatly stacked in bins . |
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