basic supply

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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supply
noun
uk
/səˈplaɪ/us
/səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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(Definition ofbasicandsupplyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many countries, particularly arid countries, lack abasicsupplyof water which will have to be provided through the units.
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The connections are now so extensive that it is enabled to rely upon abasicsupply, however great the industry.
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I think that follows inevitably from the separation of thebasicsupplyfrom the surplus.
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The troops are deployed and ready to fight, but the fighting has to be curtailed because of interruptions in thebasicsupplyline.
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We need at least six months normal rainy weather before we even get back to what might be considered thebasicsupplyposition.
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They do not involve any grandiose additions to ourbasicsupplyof materials, which would be out of place in the present parlous economic state of the country.
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I have always understood that an industry cannot start or expand satisfactorily unless it can do its experimenting and has abasicsupplyupon the home market.
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They were thebasicsupplyof employment.
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To ensure stable prices for goods and services, the state paid 80% ofbasicsupplycosts.
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In addition to thebasicsupply-demand intuition, there were a number of empirical studies that supported this view.
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Another benefit to having abasicsupplyof food storage in the home is for the cost savings.
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To an economist, this is abasicsupply-and-demand gap with tragic consequences.
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When it was created, the idea fundamentally challenged classical economic tenets such as efficient markets and rapidly changing prices, ideas that underliebasicsupplyand demand models.
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Other direct costs (staffing costs and the utilization of basic supplies) are considered in the discussion and sensitivity analyses.
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His resources covered only the sea transport and basic supplies.
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They formed part of the nitrate cantons, and were dependent on the world beyond for basic supplies, transportation, general services and so on.
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Its clinics are reputed to have more available basic supplies and more up-to-date equipment.
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As a workaround, he notes that the federal government's international partners have pledged to airlift basic supplies to the regions.
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The division had never received adequate equipment, training, and preparation for the task they were given and were chronically short of basic supplies.
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British workers continued to work throughout the war and food and other basic supplies were available throughout.
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