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▪ I. stockpile, n. orig. U.S.|ˈstɒkpaɪl|
Also stock-pile, stock pile.
[f. stock n.1 + pile n.3]
1. A pile of coal or ore accumulated at the surface after having been mined.
1872Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers II. 30 This covers the cost from miners' hands to cars or stock pile. 1912C. E. van Barneveld Iron Mining in Minnesota 140 For lighter stripping work and stock-pile loading, the 70-C Bucyrus is quite largely used. 1958Engineering 7 Feb. 188/1 Limestone is fed into a swing hammer-mill either direct from tipping lorries or by bulldozing from a stock pile.
2. a. A reserve or store of goods or commodities, esp. one accumulated in anticipation of shortage or market fluctuation.
1942Sun (Baltimore) 15 Jan. 1/2 The facilities of new car dealers will be used to store for a year or more an estimated 130,000 new passenger automobiles under a ‘stock pile’ plan. 1943Times 15 Dec. 5/6 The complete success achieved was due to..the statesmanship of all nations represented, especially those with resources outside their occupied lands and therefore able to make stockpiles of supplies at the expense of other nations less fortunate. 1957Economist 30 Nov. 791/1 In the postwar years the cartel has not been restrictive. Helped by stockpile buying of industrial diamonds and by a demand for gems as a hedge against inflation, its policy has been to hold prices down rather than force them up. 1958Manch. Guardian 25 Feb. 16/6 No wool from the British stockpile is included in this week's catalogue. 1962Economist 20 Jan. 249/3 The United States will not now authorise sales of stockpile tin below {pstlg}965 a ton. 1970Listener 23 July 107/3 Most European countries keep a 2 months' stockpile of oil by government command. 1972D. Haston In High Places xii. 150 The supplies were flowing well through the icefall;..there was a great stockpile at Camp I.
b. spec. An accumulation of nuclear weapons.
1946Rep. Internat. Control Atomic Energy (Dept. of State, Washington) III. i. 31 How can a strategic balance be maintained between nations so that stockpiles of fissionable materials will not become unduly large in one nation and small in another? 1947Nature 11 Jan. 48/1 A.D.A. should take over..the right of ensuring that any dangerous products were consumed in [atomic] power plants and that no excessive stockpile be produced. 1955[see atomic a. 2 e]. 1957Times 6 Nov. 9/6 Mr. Dulles said to-night that the United States was considering the problem of establishing stockpiles of nuclear weapons in Europe for N.A.T.O. forces' use in case of emergency. 1969Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 22/7 The threat of nuclear war was increasing every day with the mounting nuclear stockpiles. 1976Survey Summer–Autumn 193 The total explosive energy that could be released by the strategic stockpile is a measure frequently used to compare US and Soviet forces.
c. fig.
1945J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xvii. 104 The sea rocks and the beaches were his stock pile. 1957Listener 21 Nov. 826/1 Imperialist behaviour built stockpiles of national resentment. 1966Electronics 31 Oct. 23 Stockpiles of good technical men in some of the aerospace companies. 1982R. Ludlum Parsifal Mosaic viii. 111 What he learned—what he thinks he learned—has turned him into a stockpile of nitro.
▪ II. ˈstockpile, v. orig. U.S.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. Mining. To heap up (ore, coal, etc.) in piles at the surface.
1921E. W. Davis Magnetic Concentration of Iron 136 It may be necessary to mine, crush, and roast perhaps three tons of ore, cob, fine grind, and concentrate two tons of ore, dewater and agglomerate one ton of ore, stockpile one-half ton of ore, and dispose of two tons of tailings. 1937― Magnetic Roasting of Iron Ore 3 The ore being treated is a coarse tailing product rejected from existing concentration plants. It is in ideal physical condition for this process and is of no value at the present time, altho it has been mined, crushed, and stock-piled.
2. a. To accumulate a stock of (something); spec. to build up a stock of (nuclear weapons). Also absol.
1943Sun (Baltimore) 28 Apr. 7/4 The Government at last began to ‘stockpile’ 100 octane gasoline. 1947Ibid. 1 Jan. 6/3 It can be assumed that similar weapons..are now being perfected and stock-piled for future use. 1957Times 18 Nov. p. xxxii/1 Decisions to buy and stockpile or to hold off and release stocks are, no doubt, dictated by consumer demand. 1959Listener 16 July 88/2 President De Gaulle's refusal to allow American nuclear warheads to be stockpiled on French territory. 1974G. Markstein Cooler lxxvii. 254 She..had stock-piled the pills the medical officer gave her until she had collected a fatal dose. 1976Country Life 11 Mar. 638/2 It looked as if inflation would mean ever-advancing prices so wine merchants..started to stockpile.
b. fig.
1959News Chron. 9 July 4/5 To stockpile acting talent of splendid calibre. 1959Daily Tel. 2 Sept. 16/1 Employers urged to ‘stockpile’ labour. 1966[see sack v.1 8 a]. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxiv. 347 Pre-service education is not a phase in which the intending teacher must stockpile resources for a lifetime.
Hence ˈstockpiled ppl. a.; ˈstockpiler.
1951Business Week 24 Nov. 26 (heading) Stockpilers are dipping in now and then to keep both civilian and military industry going. 1972Sci. Amer. Jan. 22/1 There could be uncertainties about the performance of stockpiled weapons. 1979Guardian 23 May 15/1 Agonised consumers deciding whether to take the stock-piled bread out of the freezer and fill it up with petrol.
Add:3. intr. To form a stockpile; to accumulate. orig. U.S.
1961in Webster. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 174 As de Chardin explains in his Phenomenon of Man, new invention is the interiorization in man of the structures of earlier technology; and therefore it stockpiles, as it were. 1985Times 14 Aug. 10/2 Meanwhile grain is stockpiling in other regions. |