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US
/ˈstɑkˌpaɪɫɪŋ/
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[ UK /stˈɒkpaɪlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stˈɒkpaɪlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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accumulating and storing a reserve supply
the stockpiling of war materials
How To Use stockpiling In A Sentence
- Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective. The Sun
- My errand will remain undone for another day, milk stockpiling and likely to go to waste in the fridge for a lack of freezer bags, check undeposited. Stockholm Syndrome Would Be Welcome
- Many people have been stockpiling food as a precaution against shortages.
- The convention, which went into force in 1975, prohibits the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological and toxic weapons but lacks a mechanism to check suspected violations.
- We have been talking about vaccines for some time, stockpiling them and also developing new vaccines, should this virus mutate, which is the big if that everyone's been talking about, also possibly mandatory evacuations -- this certainly was alarming to some people -- and even deploying the National Guard. CNN Transcript May 3, 2006
- Families are stockpiling food and medicine. Times, Sunday Times
- He said he believed then she had been stockpiling tablets at home and he emptied the kitchen cupboard where she kept them.
- Sales were hit last year by unusually warm weather, which led to overstaffing and stockpiling of unsold goods. Times, Sunday Times
- In truth, the rise in imports was largely driven by commodity stockpiling.
- Aid agencies are stockpiling food, tents and medical supplies in the Middle East in anticipation of up to one million refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries.