| 单词 | to make supply | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (a) supply Phrases a.   Chiefly Scottish. To give assistance or aid. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1500    R. Henryson tr.  Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2043 in  Poems 		(1981)	 79  				Ȝe man tak trauell and mak vs sum supple. 1567    Compend. Bk. Godly Songs 		(1897)	 46  				Quhair I culd nocht the Law fulfill, My warkis maid me na supplie. 1598    R. Bernard tr.  Terence Phormio  i. iv, in  Terence in Eng. 402  				Heere will I lie in a bush to make a supply, if you shall faile in anything. 1663						 (?a1500)						    Pleasant Hist. Roswall & Lillian sig. A6  				When ever thou needest, come to me, And I shall make you good supplie. 1791    Outlaw Murray xxxix, in  F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads 		(1894)	 IX. 196/1  				Ye must meet him or the morn And mak him some supply.  b.   To make good a deficiency or lack. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1577    W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit.  ii. iii. f. 73/2, in  R. Holinshed Chron. I  				I find none of any countenance omitted before I come to Lindis or Witham, where I haue to make supplie of foure or fiue as followeth, albeit that their courses be not of any quantitie in comparison of those, whereof I spake in the Trent. 1629    Vse of Law 77 in  J. Doddridge Lawyers Light  				The manner of making supply when the part of the heire is not a full third. 1662    H. More Coll. Philos. Writings 		(ed. 2)	 Pref. Gen. p. xvii  				I omitted to set down the succession of the Pythagorick School..and therefore I will here make a supply out of Diogenes Laërtius.  P2.     Commissioner of Supply  n. Scottish (now historical) an official, typically a local landowner, appointed to assess and raise the supply ( 10b) in a given area, and later for other duties; chiefly in plural.From 1889 the office was gradually superseded and its functions transferred to local government. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > 			[noun]		 > exacting or collecting > collector of impost, due, or tax tollerc1000 tolnerc1050 pernora1325 collectorc1380 receiverc1380 toll-gatherer1382 general receiver1400 coillor1420 collator1430 receiver general1439 subcollector1471 leviera1513 taker-up1548 publicana1563 under-receiver1579 Commissioner of Supply1686 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > 			[noun]		 > land tax > those who levy or assess Commissioner of Supply1686 1686    Laws & Acts 2nd Sess.1st Parl. James VII. of Scotl. 8  				His Majesty with Advice foresaid, Doth Ordain the Justices of Peace, and Commissioners of Supply in both Shires to meet and adjust the Expence of the said Reparation. 1693    in  Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 3rd Ser. 36 42  				The Commissioners of Supply which now are, or shall be herafter in the said shyres and stewartries. a1768    J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. 		(1773)	 I.  i. iv. §31  				The commissioners of supply are the persons appointed by parliament in their yearly acts of supply, to levy the land-tax within the county to which they are named. 1838    W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 184  				Under the militia acts the commissioners of supply have also power to assess for failures to make up the quota for allowances to the families of militiamen. 1865    Proc. Alloa Soc. Nat. Sci. 6  				Mr Lothian proposed a vote of thanks to the Commissioners of Supply for the County for the gratuitous use of the Courthouse. 1902    Rep. Crofters Comm. on People of Lewis p. lxxi, in  Parl. Papers (Cd. 1327) LXXXIII. 287  				He stated he was..Chief Magistrate of Stornoway; Justice of the Peace; a Commissioner of Supply and a Commissioner under the Income Tax Acts [etc.]. 2000    J. Hearn Claiming Scotl. vi. 109  				At the local level the key agents of government were the Sherrifs [sic] who administered and enforced the law and regularly convened the Commissioners of Supply.  P3.   Economics.  supply and demand: the amount of a good or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered together as the factors regulating its price, and the profits that may be derived from it. Also attributive: of or relating to these factors. Frequently in  law of supply and demand. ΚΠ 1744Supply and demand [see sense  11].							 1810    Monthly Rev. Apr. 424  				The universal and invariable influence of the law of supply and demand. 1843    T. Carlyle Past & Present  iv. iv. 368  				The sixpence a day and supply-and-demand principle. 1878    W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 99  				The Laws of Supply and Demand may be thus stated: a rise of price tends to produce a greater supply and a less demand; a fall of price tends to produce a less supply and a greater demand. 1936    J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment  v. xxi. 292  				Prices are governed by the conditions of supply and demand. 1976    J. Snow Cricket Rebel 19  				Most boys wanted to bat and because I could do both I usually found myself caught up with a ball in my hand due to the law of supply and demand. 1993    Coloradoan 		(Fort Collins)	 12 Dec.  b6/1  				A handful of determined developers..insist supply-and-demand economics dictate that more megaresorts be built. 2004    Wall St. Jrnl. 17 May 		(Central ed.)	  a2/1  				Those fears have resulted in a so-called terrorism premium that has pushed up crude prices as much as $5 to $10 a barrel over what supply and demand would suggest.  P4.    on supply: (of a person, esp. a schoolteacher) acting as a temporary substitute for another. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > as deputy or representative			[phrase]		 > acting temporarily instead of another on supply1848 1848    M. Gailland Diary 15 Apr. in  Kansas Hist. Q. 		(1953)	 20 519  				The Father on supply celebrated Mass in the..trading post. 1885    Rep. School Managem. Comm. 		(School Board for London)	 207  				Mrs. Luxton, who is on Supply, is but a fairly good teacher; the other Assistants are painstaking and intelligent teachers and have their classes in a very satisfactory state of Discipline. 1905    Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 1/6  				Wanted, an Assistant School~master, on ‘Supply.’ 1912    Universe 16 Aug. 12/1  				Southwark... Father Hallett [stationed] on supply at Melior Street. 1999    Times Educ. Suppl. 7 May (Appointments Suppl.) 103/2 		(advt.)	  				Many of our teachers start with us on supply and then are appointed for contracts.  P5.    in short supply: not existing in large enough quantities to satisfy demand; scarce. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > 			[phrase]		 > not abundant money (etc.) does not grow on trees1669 in short supply1804 thin on the ground1951 1804    Morning Post 4 Sept.  				Barley comes in short supply. 1811    J. MacDonald Gen. View Agric. Hebrides xiv. 462  				Wool..is sometimes accidentally in very short supply. 1860    Farmer's Mag. July 84/2  				The Irish cattle were in short supply, and principally composed of stirks. 1942    Times Rev. 1941 3 Jan. p. v/4  				There has been an exemplary pooling of machine tools and of other requisites in short supply. 1988    L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir iv. 73  				All manner of food and basic commodities were in short supply. 2005    M. Atwood Penelopiad vi. 36  				My uncle would not have helped anyone—believe me—simply out of the goodness of his heart, a commodity that was in short supply. < as lemmas  | 
	
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