- stockpile stock·pile
- ['stɒkˌpaɪl]
1. nriserva, scorta2. vtaccumulare riserve di
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stockpile stock·pile
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stock|pile — «STOK PYL», noun, verb, piled, pil|ing. –n. 1. a supply of raw materials or essential items, built up and held in reserve for use during time of emergency or shortage: »the national stockpiles of strategic materials and farm commodities (Arthur… … Useful english dictionary
stockpile — stock|pile1 [ stak,paıl ] noun count a large collection of things that may be needed: The country is believed to have stockpiles of chemical weapons. stockpile stock|pile 2 [ stak,paıl ] verb transitive to collect large amounts of things that may … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
stockpile — ▪ I. stockpile stockpile 2 noun [countable] COMMERCE a large supply of goods, weapons etc that are being kept for use in the future, often because they will be difficult to obtain later: • Following poor harvests, stockpiles of grain are expected … Financial and business terms
stockpile — stock•pile [[t]ˈstɒkˌpaɪl[/t]] n. v. piled, pil•ing 1) a supply of an essential material held in reserve, esp. for use during a shortage 2) to accumulate for future use; put or store in a stockpile 3) to accumulate in a stockpile • Etymology:… … From formal English to slang
stock´pil´er — stock|pile «STOK PYL», noun, verb, piled, pil|ing. –n. 1. a supply of raw materials or essential items, built up and held in reserve for use during time of emergency or shortage: »the national stockpiles of strategic materials and farm… … Useful english dictionary
stockpile — (n.) 1872, from STOCK (Cf. stock) (n.2) + PILE (Cf. pile). Originally a term in mining. The verb is attested from 1921. Extended to general use during World War II … Etymology dictionary
pile — Synonyms and related words: abscess, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, angina, angina pectoris, anthill, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, architecture,… … Moby Thesaurus
stock — Synonyms and related words: Animalia, Broadway, ability, abundance, acceptation, accepted, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, accustomed, acquiescence, affiliation, afford, allotment, allowance, amass, amassment, ancestor, ancestry … Moby Thesaurus
stock — n 1. supply, store, stockpile, inventory; quantity, fund, lot, bunch, heap, pile, mass, stack, load, Chiefly U.S. Dial. grist; assortment, range, selection, variety; collection, accumulation, amassment, aggregate, Obs. commodity; reserve,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
stockpile — Synonyms and related words: abundance, accumulate, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, backlog, bank, budget, cache, chunk, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, congeries,… … Moby Thesaurus
pile — I 1. noun 1) a pile of stones Syn: heap, stack, mound, pyramid, mass, quantity; collection, accumulation, assemblage, store, stockpile, hoard 2) informal I ve got a pile of work to do Syn … Thesaurus of popular words
