stockpilingn.
Originally U.S.
The action of making a stockpile of goods, raw materials, or nuclear weapons.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > holding material in stock
stockpiling1943
stockholding1961
stock-building1967
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 20 July 9/4 Suspension of purchases of Australian wool for stockpiling.
1946 Rep. 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.
1953 E. Hyams Prophecy of Famine 41 But to do so would upset our stock-piling and other contingency supplies.
1959 Listener 18 June 1066/2 France's refusal to allow stockpiling of American atomic weapons on French soil for the Nato fighter-bomber force.
Compounds
General attributive.
stockpiling act n.
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1946 Times 26 July 7/1 This week President Truman has signed the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act.
stockpiling policy n.
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1945 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Mar. 7-0/5 The committee will review the food procurement and stockpiling policies of war agencies.
stockpiling programme n.
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1943 Sun (Baltimore) 20 July 9/4 Officials of agencies concerned with the stockpiling program.
1944 Times 14 Feb. 7/1 Certainly it would hardly be wise to start a ‘stockpiling’ programme.
stockpiling purchase n.
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1949 Times 10 Sept. 5/7 The article provides safeguards against..injuring British interests in their commercial export as a result of stockpiling purchases.
stockpiling purpose n.
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1947 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Dec. 2/4 To facilitate the procurement of such raw materials by the United States for stockpiling purposes.
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