stockpile

IPA: stˈɑkpaɪɫ

noun

  • A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
  • (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
  • (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.

verb

  • (transitive)
  • To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).
  • (specifically, military, weaponry) To build up a stock of (nuclear weapons).
  • (mining) To heap up piles of (coal or ore) on the ground after it has been mined.
  • (intransitive) To build up a supply; to accumulate.
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Examples of "stockpile" in Sentences

  • I don't have any stockpile of food.
  • The current size of the stockpile is huge.
  • Stockpiles eliminated under the Convention.
  • Most of the stockpile disappeared afterwards.
  • Most of the nuclear stockpile was inherited by Russia.
  • Once loaded angle the slip back to carry the material to a stockpile.
  • These weapons constitute the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the US.
  • Moreover, most of the time, the US stockpile was larger than the Soviet one.
  • His stockpile is rivaled only by the personal stash of George Lucas himself.
  • In the western part of the district is where the phosphate stockpile is located.
  • Soviet stockpile is also a tremendous one, perhaps one-third or one-half as large as the U.S. stockpile.
  • GERBERDING: Well, the stockpile is a mechanism to give manufactures an incentive to increase their production.
  • My milk stockpile, which is all carefully dated and organized into tuppware containers, takes up about 90% of our freezer space.
  • Most likely what occurs is, that the stockpile is sold off after a certain amount of time and repurchased at the same time, to keep the amount consistent.
  • In the light of the experiences of the residents of Macassar, the continued presence of the stockpile was a source of great concern and fear for the community.
  • It's true, as experts testified last week, that the computer modeling the United States would use in place of nuclear tests -- called stockpile stewardship -- is not flawless.
  • "There's going to be a lot of lives lost," said Mimi Sheridan, referring to the stockpile of petrol and gas canisters they planned to use against the bailiffs when the time came.
  • According to U.S. and Pakistani officials, there is no way a complete nuclear weapon can be taken from Islamabad's stockpile, which is protected by about 10,000 of the Pakistani military's most elite troops.
  • Now they aren't doing all this on only $1,500 a year -- they're really doing it on $2,700 a year ($1,500 plus what they call their "stockpile" -- an amount of food, etc. that they started with that's valued at $1,200.)

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