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Stockpile meaning
A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. | A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. | A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
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Example sentences (20)
Ammonium stockpile under spotlight in NSW after deadly Beirut chemical blastLocal residents have long raised concerns about a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate near populated areas of Newcastle, in New South Wales.
The revelation comes as supermarkets issued a warning to suppliers to stockpile customers’ favourite tea and coffee while the NHS said it would stockpile drugs brought in from outside the EU if Theresa May fails to strike a deal with Brussels.
The ITC supported the price of tin during periods of low prices by buying tin for its buffer stockpile and was able to restrain the price during periods of high prices by selling tin from the stockpile.
But even with higher near-term production rates, the US cannot replenish its stockpile or catch up to the usage pace in Ukraine, where officials estimate that the Ukrainian military is firing 6,000 to 8,000 shells per day.
But it is in talks with Roche, which makes the drug, 'to establish a small stockpile of the antiviral with the possibility to scale up production if the need arises'.
California lends 500 ventilators to the national stockpile to be used where the need is currently greatest.
China's CMOC Group Ltd. made a breakthrough in a long-running spat over mining royalties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, potentially paving the way for its massive stockpile of battery metals to start flowing to global markets.
Finally, you can deal with the massive stockpile of shampoo bottles and other products taking over the floors, walls, and corners of the shower — simply hang them in the curtain pockets instead!
For outstanding public service in reforming the National Medical Stockpile processes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Putin threatening the use of 'all available means’ to massive missiles being carted around in front of cameras, the Kremlin has made its stockpile clear.
Generally, businesses want to have inventory right when they need it, to keep down the cost of managing a stockpile.
Inspectors believe a stockpile of hand sanitizer left over from the pandemic contributed to November’s freeway fire.
Instead of trying to stockpile as much data as possible, firms must carefully weigh what’s needed.
Judging from the picture in the post immediately above yours, he's gonna run through that stockpile of MREs pretty quickly.
Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, atomic materials stewardship, and environmental stewardship are currently supported at the site.
Overhead shots of the area captured a large military camp under construction alongside a line of black tents adjacent to some towers, fronted by wooden platforms and stone blocks as well as a stockpile of chests, amphora and munitions.
President Joe Biden sought to reduce price spikes by selling record amounts from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federally controlled stockpile of crude oil housed in underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.
Property developers are finishing work on the biggest stockpile of new homes in nearly two decades, a potential supply surge that could weigh on prices following the worst sales total in nine years.
So everyone from a nomad to a corpo boss will end up with a stockpile of useless common equipment.
That wave never came, and as public health restrictions were gradually lifted, the government found itself with a stockpile of some 93 million tests as of March 21.