resupply
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3.9
- noun
- /ˌriːsəˈplaɪ/
:
reabastecimiento
- During the expedition, the team relied on a planned resupply to replace their dwindling food supplies.
So unsupported is no resupplies of food or fuel.
- So unsupported is no resupplies of food or fuel.
- She said had it not been for the veterans, we wouldn't even have had food resupply in the first two weeks.
- There was a Russian aircraft coming in for an aerial resupply in layoffs to the NBA.
- So they were real hesitant in terms of resupply, the frequency into the scale of what they could safely fly in for us.
Examples
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The military conducted a crucial resupply operation to ensure the troops had enough food and fuel.
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Under those conditions, resupply to the urban areas cannot and will not take place.
Blog text (26) -
The goal of bringing private companies into the station resupply business is now a reality.
Blog text (11) -
Cities can only last about a week without resupply; then things get ugly.
Blog text (17) -
On the practical front, we also need places we can get resupply boxes to on the west side of Cook Inlet.
Blog text (22) -
Fuel shortages are hindering resupply in some areas, but overall there is no shortage of stocks.
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The crowded roads limit resupply of Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
Blog text (32) -
The Justica couldn't run without their fleet, without the ice miners, the slow scows, and the resupply ships.
Fiction book (1991) -
Note also that SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, the current contractors for ISS cargo resupply, won their contracts during the Bush administration.
Blog text (12) -
The research station requested a resupply to bring in more equipment and provisions for the winter months.
Synonyms
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2.3
The act of putting a new thing in place of an old one
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2.0
A part you buy to put into a pen, bottle, or filter when the old one is used
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4.0
To put goods or fish into a place to keep it full
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4.9
Filling something again by giving more of what was used
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1.6
Putting more of something into something that is almost empty, like a printer or water cooler
Sending goods again by moving them to another ship or carrier
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Morphology
Etymology
Resupply combines re- 'again' and supply 'to give what is needed', and it names the act of sending more goods like food or fuel when the first amount has been used up. So, a resupply is the delivery that replaces supplies that are gone.