| central supply, hospital | Hospital department responsible for receiving, storing, and distributing medical and surgical supplies and equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| water supply | Source, means, or process of supplying water (as for a community) usually including reservoirs, tunnels, and pipelines and often the watershed from which the water is ultimately drawn. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| supply | 1. The act of supplying; supplial. 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." 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. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; especially, a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit. Stated supply "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." . Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. <zoology> Supply system, the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |