| 释义 |
ˈstockpiling, vbl. n. orig. U.S.
[f. stockpile v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making a stockpile of goods, raw materials, or nuclear weapons.
1943Sun (Baltimore) 20 July 9/4 Suspension of purchases of Australian wool for stockpiling. 1946Rep. Internat. Control Atomic Energy (Dept. of State, Washington) II. v. 25 It is, furthermore, clear that the stockpiling of appreciable quantities of fissionable material suitably denatured, must precede the development of these safe power reactors. 1953E. Hyams Prophecy of Famine 41 But to do so would upset our stock-piling and other contingency supplies. 1959Listener 18 June 1066/2 France's refusal to allow stockpiling of American atomic weapons on French soil for the Nato fighter-bomber force.
2. attrib. and Comb., as stockpiling act, stockpiling policy, stockpiling programme, stockpiling purchase, stockpiling purpose.
1946Times 26 July 7/1 This week President Truman has signed the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act.
1945Sun (Baltimore) 30 Mar. 7-0/5 The committee will review the food procurement and stockpiling policies of war agencies.
1943Ibid. 20 July 9/4 Officials of agencies concerned with the stockpiling program. 1944Times 14 Feb. 7/1 Certainly it would hardly be wise to start a ‘stockpiling’ programme. 1949Times 10 Sept. 5/7 The article provides safeguards against..injuring British interests in their commercial export as a result of stockpiling purchases.
1947Sun (Baltimore) 20 Dec. 2/4 To facilitate the procurement of such raw materials by the United States for stockpiling purposes. |