| 单词 | stockpile |
| 释义 | stockpile (once / 3750 pages) nv A stockpile is a large amount of something that you save for later. If you're worried about running out of your favorite flavor of bubble gum, you might decide to keep a stockpile of it. If you hear the word stockpile on the news, it's probably referring to weapons which are accumulated and saved by a country that might need to use them some day in the future. You can use stockpile to describe the actual cache of weapons and also as a verb, to describe the act of storing them. The word was originally a mining term that literally described a pile of ore. During World War II, stockpile became a more general term. WORD FAMILYstockpile: stockpiled, stockpiles, stockpiling USAGE EXAMPLESTo avoid a stockpile of holiday cards, “save only those that are meaningful and special,” Tova Weinstock, a professional organizer in Brooklyn, said. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Trade in ivory was banned internationally in 1989, but a loophole allowed southern African countries to hold occasional legal sales of their ivory stockpiles. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Oil fell for the first time in nine sessions in New York after a government report showed U.S. crude stockpiles increased for a second week. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose Syn|Hypo|Hyper backlog, reserve bank a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) fuel levelthe amount of fuel remaining reserve account, reserve fundfunds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments blood banka place for storing whole blood or blood plasma eye banka place for storing and preserving corneas that are obtained from human corpses immediately after death; used for corneal transplantation to patients with corneal defects food banka place where food is contributed and made available to those in need soil bankland retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land hidden reservereserves that do not show up on the balance sheet (as by understating values) poolany communal combination of funds allowance, allowance account, valuation account, valuation reservea reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets accumulation (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation 2n a storage pile accumulated for future use Hyper agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile a collection of objects laid on top of each other 3v have on hand Syn|Hyper carry, stock have, have got, hold have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense |
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