0 a large amount of food, goods, or weapons that are kept ready for future use:
They have a stockpile of weapons and ammunition that will last several months.
2 a large amount of goods kept ready for future use:
a stockpile of wheat
4 a large amount of something that has been collected to use later:
In this way, stockpiling contributes to political flexibility and manoeuvrability during oil crises.
Limited to the use of existing stockpiles, the remaining sandalwood factories have tended to reduce production of sandalwood items and continue operations only on receipt of confirmed orders.
Because horses cannot be stockpiled, a king needed nobles upon whom he could call in time of war; they in turn needed the kingship as a goal of competition.
In all other sections top soil has been stripped and stockpiled for later landscape use, in accordance with normal practice.
We are dependent on flying troops without equipment to stockpiles around the world.
He is speaking of the plans which his general staffs, furnished with the nuclear stockpiles, have been obliged to make.
Reprocessing increases stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, and spreads them around the world, where they are increasingly vulnerable to theft and misuse.
I shall give the facts about the scale of the problem of plutonium stockpiles.
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