stockpiling
IPA: stˈɑkpaɪɫɪŋ
noun
- The process of building up a stockpile.
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Examples of "stockpiling" in Sentences
- This is far more useful competition than competition in stockpiling hydrogen bombs and all kinds of arms.
- The judges said there was nothing original about the idea of stockpiling vegetable purees for covert use in children's food.''
- Says the ACLU, "Although the bricks were acquired for masonry repairs, Denver police accused the activist of 'stockpiling' the bricks for the DNC."
- "It is really about people nervous and stockpiling, which is a bad idea for a couple reasons," says Dr. Don Weiss of the city's Department of Health.
- Staying close to the problem, someone posed the idea of stockpiling food, non-perishable stuff that you could string along on while figuring out what to do when it ran out.
- Its complaints relate to a practice called early working, through which a generic company can begin stockpiling a copied drug so that it has immediate market access when the patent expires.
- As a cautionary note, if you use a preparer who tells you that you can complete these returns now for submission as soon as the IRS opens the gates, "stockpiling" is technically not allowed.
- Precautions such as stockpiling antiviral drugs, closing schools, suspending travel and practicing good hygiene are necessary to help stop the spread of swine flu, but we need to take one more significant measure to prevent future epidemics of animalborne diseases: Stop raising animals for food.
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