| 单词 | supplies depot |
| 释义 | > as lemmassupplies depot C2. In plural (see sense 6a), frequently as a less common alternative to the singular forms in Compounds 1, as supplies depot, supplies officer, etc. ΚΠ c1864 I. R. Trimble Diary in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1922) 17 18 At this date the supplies store has been closed & we are reduced to less than army rations. 1898 Engin. Mag. 16 44 Pay-roll total and supplies-cost total. 1906 Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 5/5 The unbusinesslike methods of the Supplies Office at Pretoria. 1916 Alumni Q. (Univ. Illinois) 15 June 401/1 Old grads recalled that the cadets..helped to guard the supplies depot. 1920 Jrnl. Internat. Relations 11 114 When I was there the supplies officer showed me with mournful countenance the small and rapidly dwindling supply of flour on hand, enough to last only two or three weeks. 1978 B. Lotito tr. V. Alba Transition in Spain xvii. 182 During the war, Allied squadrons used Gibraltar as a supplies depot. 2009 J. Foster tr. P. Manes As if it were Life iii. 251 The head of the women's section, Mrs. Frič, was leaving with her husband, who had held a high position in the supplies office. < as lemmas |
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