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: --
I may add here, just in case anyone has any misunderstanding about this, that both sides were quite prepared; they had stockpiles to use.
Stockpiling means the control of all raw materials from the beginning.
When pressed, he could not say what articles were to be stockpiled, or the extent to which they had been stockpiled.
We find that our stockpiles are very low.
Other commodities, such as coarse grains, can be stockpiled and kept in reserve.
The increased expenditure has enabled considerable progress to be made, with more equipment being supplied and stockpiled.
If stockpiles are strategically based throughout the world, this danger will not arise.
I shall give the facts about the scale of the problem of plutonium stockpiles.
