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[ UK /stˈɒkpa‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈstɑkˌpaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a storage pile accumulated for future use
  2. something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
VERB
  1. have on hand
    Do you carry kerosene heaters?

How To Use stockpile In A Sentence

  • They look good and we're in the process now of trying to scale up the capability of the manufacturers to be able to make enough of this so that we would be able to have a reasonable stockpile.
  • They expected gasoline stockpiles to drop 1.7 million barrels and distillate inventories to fall 300,000 barrels. Oil Falls, Awaits Obama
  • Its demise meant the collapse of the system for monitoring the two largest nuclear stockpiles in the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • In some cases, peat excavated from mines or reserve pits has been stockpiled.
  • It will analyze the effects of implosions during non-nuclear mock-up experiments - simulations that will render actual weapons stockpile testing unnecessary.
  • Waste was hauled by truck to various designated dumps, and the ore was to be stockpiled or to be directly crushed, screened, and agglomerated.
  • The stockpile has 40 million treatment courses of Tamiflu, 10 million courses of Relenza and nearly three million courses of an adamantane. In the War Against Flu's Mutants, a Big Ally Is Weakened
  • A search reportedly turned up a stockpile of pistols, long guns, ammunition, and bowie knives.
  • It will analyze the effects of implosions during non-nuclear mock-up experiments - simulations that will render actual weapons stockpile testing unnecessary.
  • Bails of lucern, donated by farmers in the Maclear and Ugie areas, were due to be stockpiled for distribution later.
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