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stockpile

/stok-pahyl/US // ˈstɒkˌpaɪl //UK // (ˈstɒkˌpaɪl) //

储存,库存,储备,贮藏

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    stock·piled, stock·pil·ing.

    • : to accumulate for future use; put or store in a stockpile.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.

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