0 the practice of storing a large supply of something for future use:
Increasing instability is encouraging stockpiling.
Why is there this stockpiling of arms and ammunition?
Food stores have begun rationing sales of rice to prevent stockpiling by customers.
Thompson sees the stockpiling of antibiotics as a measure to put Americans at ease.
High and volatile prices have discouraged the stockpiling of crude oil.
In this way, stockpiling contributes to political flexibility and manoeuvrability during oil crises.
However, stockpiling soils before they are used for revegetation can hinder recruitment in two ways.
Rather than stockpiling capital and resources, it managed to govern with dispersed resources and unconcentrated capital.
More than token attention (as in merely stockpiling) for this critical curing phase is needed in the overall compost process engineering design.
Other purchasers included temples, which apparently regarded the stockpiling of gold as a means to safeguard their assets.
