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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supply and demand
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A graphic analysis of supply and demand should yield the same conclusions.
▪ As a matter of fact, a single event might simultaneously affect both supply and demand.
▪ As noted elsewhere, it is the relevant supply and demand elasticities that matter.
▪ Essentially it is a matter of identifying the sources of supply and demand.
▪ Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.
▪ Real Dangers It's the market place economy, a case of supply and demand.
▪ The direction of the change in quantity depends upon the relative sizes of the changes in supply and demand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supply and demand

Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. Supplies.

  1. The act of supplying; supplial.
    --A. Tucker.

  2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically:

    1. Auxiliary troops or re["e]nforcements. ``My promised supply of horsemen.''
      --Shak.

    2. 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.

    3. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

    4. A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.

      Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.

      Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) ``Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.''
      --F. A. Walker.

Wiktionary
supply and demand

n. (context economics English) A capitalistic model of price determination in a market.

Wikipedia
Supply and demand

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good, or other traded item such as labor or liquid financial assets, will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded (at the current price) will equal the quantity supplied (at the current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium for price and quantity transacted.

Supply and Demand (Amos Lee album)

Supply and Demand is the second album by singer-songwriter Amos Lee, which was released on October 3, 2006. The first single from the album was "Shout Out Loud". Two songs are available for listening on Amos' official website. The album was produced by former Wallflowers and Natalie Merchant bassist Barrie Maguire.

Supply and Demand (disambiguation)

Supply and demand is an economic model used to explain price changes in a market.

  • See also Capitalism#Supply and demand.

Supply and Demand may also refer to:

  • Supply and Demand (Dagmar Krause album)
  • Supply and Demand (Amos Lee album)
  • Supply & Demand (Playaz Circle album)
  • "Supply and Demand" (song), a song by the Hives
  • "Supply and Demand" (CSI: NY), an episode of CSI: NY
Supply and Demand (Dagmar Krause album)

Supply and Demand: Songs by Brecht / Weill & Eisler is the first solo album by German singer Dagmar Krause released by Hannibal Records in 1986. It is a collection of 16 songs by German composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht and sung by Krause in English. She also sang the songs in the original German which were released by Hannibal at the same time on a companion album, Angebot & Nachfrage: Lieder von Brecht / Weill & Eisler.

Supply and Demand was reissued by Voiceprint Records in 1999 with track selections from both the English and German editions.