stockpile
stok pahyl
- n something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- n a storage pile accumulated for future use
- v have on hand
- The national stockpile contains a fraction of the face masks the government says we need to protect against a flu pandemic.
- As countries meet their targets for an anti-flu-pandemic Tamiflu stockpile, global demand for the drug is tapering off.
- In order to turn its stockpile of low-enriched uranium into bomb fuel, Iran would have to unambiguously declare its intentions by kicking out the inspectors and breaking from the .