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单词 stockpile
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stockpile
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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 FAMILY
stockpile: stockpiled, stockpiles, stockpiling
USAGE EXAMPLES
To 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 level
the amount of fuel remaining
reserve account, reserve fund
funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments
blood bank
a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma
eye bank
a 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 bank
a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need
soil bank
land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land
hidden reserve
reserves that do not show up on the balance sheet (as by understating values)
pool
any communal combination of funds
allowance, allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve
a 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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