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stockpile Noun

— A stockpile is a large amount of something kept for future use. Wow, I knew you liked this stuff, but you have a whole stockpile here!

stockpile

— noun a storage pile accumulated for future use — noun (= reserve) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose — verb (= carry) have on hand Do you carry kerosene heaters?

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stockpile English » English

store stock reserve hoard inventory accumulate supply lay in carry backlog store up stock up provision log heap weapons weaponry weapon stockpile warehouse trust threescore surge pile storehouse storage pile storage stockroom stock up on stock room stock pile stock dump stash stack slag heap savings save up save ruck reservoir ream pile up pile pension mountain mound mass lay up lay in stock keep granary gather

Topics stockpile topics

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Group of things

Conjugation stockpile conjugation

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stockpile · verb

Examples stockpile examples

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Simple sentences

Tom says that it is wise to stockpile some food in case of emergency.
You should stockpile necessary supplies in case of a big earthquake.

Movie subtitles

I understand there's a considerable stockpile of uranium here.
The world's stockpile of thermo-nuclear weapons has doubled within the last five years and now is the equivalent of almost 20 tons of high explosive to every man, woman and child on the planet.
This stockpile is still steadily growing.
Flight plan now is to soft-land on the moon. and refuel from lunar stockpile.
Well, I seem to recall a huge stockpile of bombs, sir.
Then dismantle your MX stockpile.
Or that the Department of Energy had been able to stockpile a thousand years' supply of filing tabs. Or that another department had stocked up with a million tins of Vim.
He's got a stockpile of easy-listening shit-shingles in his office.
Agreed. But we can't mount a strike without medical supplies, and our stockpile is dangerously low.
If so, we're going to need to stockpile as much as we can.
I'll stockpile the stuff for you.
That dish is just one more piece of techno-crap to go along with the rest of your stockpile of techno-crap!
We're using power cells to stockpile deuterium.
Our biggest stockpile is buried here-- two meters beneath the last row of seats of the Cinema Mystere.
What will happen to mankind if the entire stockpile of hydrogen bombs is blown up?
The stockpile of A-bombs is equal to 1 ton of dynamite per person on earth.
Your stockpile.
Not quite a stockpile.
And the free world's stockpile of tri-tanium is gone, just like that.
In two hours, the U.S. stockpile will cease to exist and nobody can do anything about it.
You haven't dismantled your MX stockpile.
Slag's turning Tromaville into a radioactive stockpile.
If we don't stop Slag now, he's gonna turn this whole town Into a radioactive stockpile.
Combine your power with Adlai's and turn Tromaville Into a nuclear stockpile.
Not until Tromaville is nothing but a nuclear stockpile.
Agreed. But we can't mount a strike without medical supplies and our stockpile is dangerously low.
Kronos is headed for the atom bomb stockpile at Hueneme.
Military authorities state that the city is in the monster's path on his way to the huge stockpile of nuclear weapons at Hueneme.
Well, it probably used that enormous stockpile of energy to project itself across space.
So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies.
So my entire stockpile is wasted, and I look ridiculous!
This is our private stockpile for the ice age.
We've built up a considerable stockpile.
Your family seems to have a stockpile of them.
Our entire stockpile.
Commander, you said you gave Anubis your entire stockpile of Naquadria.

News and current affairs

Immediate further cuts must include sub-strategic weapons, with the few remaining American nuclear weapons in Europe withdrawn in exchange for the elimination of the still substantial Russian stockpile.
The current stockpile of nuclear weapons represents more than a million times the explosive power of the bomb whose destruction of Hiroshima so grieved him.
As dangerous as Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile is, it pales in comparison with another risk that became evident in late February, when Syrian rebels overran a Scud-missile base in Al-Kibar, in the country's remote northeastern desert.
He pointed to how the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990's caused the region's voracious investment demand to collapse, while simultaneously inducing Asian governments to stockpile liquid assets as a hedge against another crisis.
PRINCETON - The prospect of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obama's embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile.
My proposal is to create a physical stockpile of LEU at the disposal of the IAEA as a last-resort reserve for countries with nuclear power programs that face a supply disruption for non-commercial reasons.
In particular, a country planning to intervene must demonstrate that it has an intimidating stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves, and the readiness to use it.
North Korea continues to enlarge its nuclear stockpile and develop long-range missile technologies (it can already launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting America's west coast).
Indeed, it is believed that North Korea during this time increased its stockpile of nuclear weapons.
As Morell put it, the most acute danger is that a regime with a large stockpile of weapons of mass destruction will be supplanted by a regime affiliated with, or dominated by, Al Qaeda.
Unfortunately, the recent demonstration of the volatility of global financial markets only encourages the tendency to stockpile reserves.
China shares Russia's concerns about US conventional and missile-defense superiority, and is increasing and modernizing its estimated 240-weapon stockpile.
One is related to the readiness of the two major nuclear powers, Russia and the United States, to move from the stockpile reductions to which they agreed in the New START treaty to complete elimination of their nuclear arsenals.
It has all the ingredients, though painful memories of World War II and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have so far kept its leaders well away from developing a nuclear stockpile.
Turkey's attempt to mediate between the major Western powers and Iran concerning the Islamic Republic's uranium stockpile went unappreciated in the West; indeed, the United States scuttled the effort just as it seemed to be bearing fruit.

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