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Definition: Stockpile |
StockpileNoun1. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. 2. A storage pile accumulated for future use. Verb1. Have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | A deposit at the surface of the mine of mined material, e. g. coal(stockpile), dirt, preparation rejects(waste dump, spoilbank). Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Generally, any pile or stack of logs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An accumulation of ore or mineral built up when demand slackens or when the treatment plant or beneficiation equipment is incomplete or temporarily unequal to handling the mine output; any heap of material formed to create a reserve for loading or other purposes b. The ore accumulated at the surface when shipping is suspended. (references) |
Public Administration | Store of civil protection material, medicines, equipment and other supplies needed in disaster. Refers also to the storehouse of these reserves. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: StockpileSynonyms: backlog (n), reserve (n), carry (v), stock (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stockpile |
| Specialty definitions using "stockpile": BATTERY-WRECKER OPERATOR, belt feeder ♦ coal-tower operator ♦ FLUMER ♦ jump-roll operator ♦ level-of-effort munitions ♦ ore bridge ♦ PANEL-LAY-UP WORKER, PORTABLE SAWYER ♦ QUARRY SUPERVISOR, DIMENSION STONE ♦ threat-oriented munitions, TOWER-LOADER OPERATOR, TRANSFER CONTROLLER ♦ WINDING-LATHE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is our private stockpile for the Ice Age! (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
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 | Under construction by James Eads, at St. Louis, Missouri, prior to October 1861. This view shows four ships being built in pairs, at two levels on the shore, with casemate side timbers largely installed. Vertical timbers extending above the slanting casemate sides are framing for the ships' paddle-wheel boxes. The four ships of this class built at St. Louis were Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis. Note building and flagpole in the right background, timber stockpile in the foreground, and twin rudder posts at the ships' sterns with the paddle raceway between them. Credit: NAVY. |  | Production. Tin smelting. A workman in a Southern tin smelter, protected from harmful dust by a respirator, trims a huge stockpile of ore just discharge from the crushers. A series of smelting operations will extract pure tin for the countless war needs o. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Building stockpiles. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked in a western sawmill. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the const. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for national defense. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at the Emmet, Idaho sawmills of the Boise Payette Lumber Company. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady month. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Antiaircraft gun carriage. A huge stockpile of equilibrator springs await assembly into the carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Russia | Under the CTR Program, the U.S. is helping Russia destroy its CW stockpile and associated infrastructure. (references) |
Afghanistan | Afghanistan was the world's largest producer of raw opium in 1999 and 2000. In 2000 the Taliban banned opium poppy cultivation but failed to destroy the existing stockpile and presumably benefited substantially from resulting price increases. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | In 2000 the Taliban banned cultivation of the opium poppy but failed to destroy the existing stockpile, reportedly the world's largest. (references) |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Even in the absence of agreement, we must not stockpile arms beyond our needs or seek an excess of military power that could be provocative as well as wasteful. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This successful drawdown in our nuclear stockpile was a further tangible demonstration of our commitment to the updating of our existing theater nuclear forces in Europe. |
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| "Stockpile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.95% of the time. "Stockpile" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.95% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.61% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stockpile": nuclear stockpile ♦ stockpile to target sequence. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stockpile | 12 |
national stockpile strategic | 10 |
national pharmaceutical stockpile | 7 |
golf stockpile | 3 |
national pharmaceutical stockpile training video | 2 |
center defense national stockpile | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stockpile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, emergency, fountain, fund, garment, hoard, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, ordinary, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, spare, stand by, stock, store, supply), inventar (inventory, stocktaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خزن إحتياطيا, إختزن (shelve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | резерва (backlog, bank, limitation, qualification, qualifier, reservation, reserve, supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "存 (stocked), 儲存 (to stockpile, to store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zásoba (bank, fund, hoard, reserve, stock, store, supply), váleèná rezerva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stabel (deck, log deck, mass, pile, piles, slade, slipway, stack, stack of disks), vold af afgravet materiale (spoilbank, waste dump), bunke (deck, log deck, pile), beredskabslager. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stort (attle, burrow, controlled tipping, depositing earth from cut, deposition, landfill, landfilling, rubbish, spoilbank, tipping, waste dump), steenberg (spoilbank, waste dump), stapel (accumulation, crazy, crowd, heap, insane, mad, mass, multitude, nuts, pile, stack), slakkenberg (spoilbank, waste dump), mijnstort (spoilbank, waste dump), magazijn voor buitengewone omstandigheden, depot (affiliate, affiliation, branch, depository). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | توده کردن (Aggregate, Amass, Cumulate, Heap, Hill, Lump, Pack, Pile, Ruck, Shock, Stack), ذخیره (Hoard, Reservation, Reserve, Reservoir, Spare, Stock, Store), انباشته کردن , انباشته (Congeries, Full, Oodles, Replete, Stodgy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varmuusvarasto (contingencies, contingency reserve), tukkikasa (deck, log deck, pile), kasa (accumulation, crowd, heap, lot, mass, multitude, pile, stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stocker (stock up, store, Stow), stock (stock), terril de charbon, réserves (stocks), réserve (stash, stock, stockroom, storage room, store, storeroom), faire des stocks, empilement (stack, stacking), dépôt (store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufstapeln (accumulate, amass, heap, pil up, pile up, stack, stack up, stacking, to pil up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σωροί άνθρακα (spoilbank, waste dump), στοιβάς (deck, log deck, pile), παρακαταθήκη (consignment, reserve, stock, store, trust), χώρος συσσώρευσης σκάρτων (spoilbank, waste dump), αποθήκη (bin, cellar, depository, hutch, promptuary, repository, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, vault, warehouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלאי (inventory, reserve, stock, store, supply), מא'ר מלאי, מא'ר (catch basin, hoard, reservoir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tartalékkészlet, árukészlet (goods on hand, stock, stock holdings), raktár (berth, depository, depot, dump, go down, godown, hold, magazine, repository, stock, stock room, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), hányó (dump, vomiting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scorta (convoy, escort, provision, reservation, spare, stock, supply), terreno di scarico (spoilbank, waste dump), riserva (backup, fund, national park, Park, pool, preserve, provision, qualification, reservation, reserve, sanctuary, stand by, stock, wilderness), deposito di tronchi (deck, log deck, log yard, pile), deposito (account, attic, bestowal, check in, deposit, depository, depot, leaving, loft, memory, pawn, pledge, repository, storage, store, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 在庫 (stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ざい" (stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비축물자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tashtey (cache, deposit, dew, dump, fund; damp, hoard, keep, lay up, lodgement, put by, reserve price, save, saving; stockpile, stock up, store, stow; dumping, stowage, treasure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockpilestay reservas (reservations), reserva (backlog, booking, discretion, fallback, freehand, fund, hoard, privacy, proviso, qualification, reservation, reserve, reservoir, restriction, reticence, salvo, secrecy, stealth, store), pilhas de carvão (spoilbank, waste dump), pilha de troncos (deck, log deck, pile), escombreiras (spoilbank, waste dump), entulheiras (spoilbank, waste dump), empilhamento (deck, log deck, pile, piling, stacking), armazém (boutique, depository, depot, garner, magazine, repository, shop, storage, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references) rezerve de material, acumula (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, augment, garner, heap, hoard, pile, store), înmagazina (accumulate, warehouse). (various references) резерв (fund, reserve, resv), штабель (stall), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, hoard, margin, provision, reserve, stock, store, store of, supply). (various references) zaliha (backlog, hoard, provision, reserve, stock, store, supply), praviti zalihe, nagomilati (accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, garner, heap, hill, hoard, lay up, pile, pile up, stock, stock up). (various references) reservas (stores). (various references) lagra (garner, lay down, lay up, load, season, store, stratify), hög (clamp, elevated, exalted, heap, high, high pitched, hillock, huddle, lofty, loud, mound, pile, tall), förråd (depot, fund, hoard, inventory, lockup, provision, stock, store, storehouse, utility room), beredskapslager. (various references) เก็บสะสมไว้ในคลังสินค้า, คลังสินค้า. (various references) stoklanan hammadde, stoklamak (buy up, forestall, garner, hoard, lay in, lay up, pile, stock, stock up), stok yapmak (buy forward, pile, stock, stock up), yedeklik stok, hammadde stoğu. (various references) резерв (backlog, reserve), штабелювати, відвал (dump, heap), нагромаджувати (accumulate, agglomerate, bulk, congest, crowd, pyramid), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, hoard, holding, margin, reserve, spare, store, supply). (various references) kho dữ trữ (stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stockpile": stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpilers, stockpiles. (additional references) | |
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"Stockpile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stackpoole. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lockstep, lopstick, pockiest. | |
-2 letters: citoles, lockets, pickets, pickles, piolets, pistole, pockets, poetics, pokiest, polices, potlike, skelpit, skeptic, stickle, tickles. | |
-3 letters: cestoi, citole, closet, colies, copies, ketols, likest, locket, optics, picket, pickle, picots, pilose, pilots, piolet, pistol, pocket, poetic, pokies, poleis, police, polies, polite, potsie, septic, sickle, socket, sopite, splice, spoilt, stelic, stipel, tickle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpiles. | |
+2 letters: politickers, stockpilers. | |
+3 letters: postcardlike. | |
+4 letters: kleptomaniacs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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