Definitions of source
British English : source In business, if a person or firm sources a product or a raw material, they find someone who will supply it. VERBTogether they travel the world, sourcing clothes for the small, privately owned company.
noun
- the point or place from which something originates
- a spring that forms the starting point of a stream; headspring the area where the headwaters of a river rise ⇒ the source of the Nile
- a spring that forms the starting point of a stream; headspring
- the area where the headwaters of a river rise ⇒ the source of the Nile
- a person, group, etc, that creates, issues, or originates something ⇒ the source of a complaint
- any person, book, organization, etc, from which information, evidence, etc, is obtained (as modifier) ⇒ source material
- any person, book, organization, etc, from which information, evidence, etc, is obtained
- (as modifier) ⇒ source material
- anything, such as a story or work of art, that provides a model or inspiration for a later work
- (electronics ) the electrode region in a field-effect transistor from which majority carriers flow into the interelectrode conductivity channel
- See at source
- a spring that forms the starting point of a stream; headspring
- the area where the headwaters of a river rise ⇒ the source of the Nile
- any person, book, organization, etc, from which information, evidence, etc, is obtained
- (as modifier) ⇒ source material
verb
- to determine the source of a news report or story
- (transitive) foll by from to originate from
- (transitive) to establish an originator or source of (a product, piece of information, etc)