supplier
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NounEdit
supplier (plural suppliers)
- One who supplies; a provider.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- (soccer) Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.
- 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[2]:
- Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.
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TranslationsEdit
one who supplies, a provider
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Modified based on the original Latin prefix sup-, from Old French souploier, sosploier, from Latin supplicāre, present active infinitive of supplicō.
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VerbEdit
supplier
- (transitive) to implore, to beseech, to beg
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of supplier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | supplier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suppliant /sy.pli.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | supplié /sy.pli.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | supplie /sy.pli/ |
supplies /sy.pli/ |
supplie /sy.pli/ |
supplions /sy.pli.jɔ̃/ |
suppliez /sy.pli.je/ |
supplient /sy.pli/ |
| imperfect | suppliais /sy.pli.jɛ/ |
suppliais /sy.pli.jɛ/ |
suppliait /sy.pli.jɛ/ |
suppliions /sy.pli.jɔ̃/ |
suppliiez /sy.pli.je/ |
suppliaient /sy.pli.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suppliai /sy.pli.je/ |
supplias /sy.pli.ja/ |
supplia /sy.pli.ja/ |
suppliâmes /sy.pli.jam/ |
suppliâtes /sy.pli.jat/ |
supplièrent /sy.pli.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | supplierai /sy.pli.ʁe/ |
supplieras /sy.pli.ʁa/ |
suppliera /sy.pli.ʁa/ |
supplierons /sy.pli.ʁɔ̃/ |
supplierez /sy.pli.ʁe/ |
supplieront /sy.pli.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | supplierais /sy.pli.ʁɛ/ |
supplierais /sy.pli.ʁɛ/ |
supplierait /sy.pli.ʁɛ/ |
supplierions /sy.pli.ʁjɔ̃/ |
supplieriez /sy.pli.ʁje/ |
supplieraient /sy.pli.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | supplie /sy.pli/ |
supplies /sy.pli/ |
supplie /sy.pli/ |
suppliions /sy.pli.jɔ̃/ |
suppliiez /sy.pli.je/ |
supplient /sy.pli/ |
| imperfect2 | suppliasse /sy.pli.jas/ |
suppliasses /sy.pli.jas/ |
suppliât /sy.pli.ja/ |
suppliassions /sy.pli.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
suppliassiez /sy.pli.ja.sje/ |
suppliassent /sy.pli.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | supplie /sy.pli/ |
— | supplions /sy.pli.jɔ̃/ |
suppliez /sy.pli.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further readingEdit
- “supplier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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