Devolve and Supply

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

noun

• An amount of something available for use.
• Offering goods and services for sale.
• The activity of supplying or providing something.
  • synonyms: provision, supplying

verb

• Give something useful or necessary to.
  • usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
  • synonyms: provide, render, furnish
• Circulate or distribute or equip with.
  • usage: "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds"
  • synonyms: issue
• Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.
  • usage: "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
  • synonyms: provide, ply, cater
• State or say further.
  • usage: "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
  • synonyms: add, append

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
• (a.) Serving to contain, deliver or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
• (v.t.) To fill up or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
• (n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
• (n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
• (n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
• (v.t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• (n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
• (v.t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

supply is the amount of goods available in the market to be sold at a given price. The term is often coupled with supply and demand The appraisal principle that follows the interrelationship of the supply of and demand for real estate. As appraising is based on economic concepts, this principle recognizes that real property is subject to the influences of the marketplace just as is any other commodity. (See appraisal, demand).

(DoD) The procurement, distribution, maintenance while in storage, and salvage of supplies, including the determination of kind and quantity of supplies. a. producer phase--That phase of military supply that extends from determination of procurement schedules to acceptance of finished supplies by the Military Services. b. consumer phase--That phase of military supply which extends from receipt of finished supplies by the Military Services through issue for use or consumption.