stockpile
储存,库存,储备,贮藏
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Definitions
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- : a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- : a large supply of some metal, chemical, food, etc., gathered and held in reserve for use during a shortage or during a period of higher prices.
- : a quantity, as of munitions or weapons, accumulated for possible future use.
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stock·piled, stock·pil·ing.
- : to accumulate for future use; put or store in a stockpile.
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stock·piled, stock·pil·ing.
- : to accumulate in a stockpile.
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Examples
This allowed Houghton and his team to develop a blood test to identify infected blood and remove it from transfusion stockpiles.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a government push to triple the stockpile of Avigan in April, allocating almost $130 million to do so, even before clinical studies of the drug’s efficacy had produced results.
Under the ship-and-pray model, insuring vaccine stockpiles in developing countries is prohibitively expensive because underwriters are flying blind.
Since most people don’t have a personal stockpile of surgical masks, many have gotten creative, fashioning masks from T-shirts, bandanas or neck gaiters.
It means looking at stockpiles, not only at national basis, regional, state-level basis.
Importantly, as part of the interim plan, Iran has diluted or converted its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium.
And its military destroyed a large portion of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
We have a stockpile of RD-180s and AJ26s that will last two years.
They buried a stockpile of rifles and machine guns on a slope just above the building that was to house the inmates.
A bit of advice for Republican establishment types: Stockpile your Valium for March 2016.
A stockpile of the younger generation, specially educated; a stockpile of the older generation, carefully selected.
They knew there'd be a need of individuality then—and they did create a stockpile.
Next, this Government is in the storage and stockpile business to the melancholy tune of more than $16 billion.
So far, the stockpile is big enough for about a week and a half of real cold.
And they've got a stockpile of ionic bombs ready at all times in case we get out of hand.