Dictionary entry

Stockpile

Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkpʌɪl/

Pronunciation

/ˈstɒkpʌɪl/

Myanmar Meaning

အရန်သက်သက်ထားရှိသော ကုန်ပစ္စည်းအစုအပုံ။ အရန်သက်သက်ထားရှိသော ကုန်ပစ္စည်းအစုအပုံ ကုန်ပစ္စည်း ယာဉ်များကို စုဝေးသည်။

Definition

stockpile /'stɒkpaÇl/ n သိုမီွးထားေသာကုန္ပစၥည္း။ a stockpile of nuclear weapons. v သိုမီွးသည္။ သိုေလွာင္သည္။ stockpiling raw materials.

Examples

  1. ‘Russia and the United States continue to maintain enormous stockpiles of fissile material.’
  2. ‘As of August
  3. 61 countries had destroyed their stockpiles of land mines.’
  4. ‘The price of nickel was also down in London overnight after stockpiles rose
  5. hurting miners
  6. including Minara Resources and Jubilee Mines.’
  7. ‘As long as there are stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world
  8. the possibility of nuclear terrorism remains.’
  9. ‘Both America and Russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.’
  10. ‘Over the next ten years both sides will reduce their operational stockpiles of nuclear weapons to between 1
  11. 700 and 2
  12. 200 warheads each.’
  13. ‘To date
  14. U.S. weapons inspectors have not been able to find stockpiles of biological agents or signs of an active nuclear program.’
  15. ‘The Marines had established a large stockpile of supplies at Chinhung-ni.’
  16. ‘In fact
  17. 47 thousand tonnes of mineralised material sits in a stockpile at the site unprocessed.’
  18. ‘No relief for prices after the Department of Energy said refiners can borrow oil from the nation's emergency stockpiles.’
  19. ‘The United States has ordered more supplies
  20. but at these levels U.S. stockpiles would treat less than two percent of the population.’
  21. ‘Dealers fear the storm will tighten fuel supplies
  22. which are much lower than relatively robust crude stockpiles and more difficult to replace.’
  23. ‘We thought there was going to be stockpiles of weapons.’
  24. ‘Some experts have also suggested the government fund a stockpile of backup components for the energy sector.’
  25. ‘So much aid has poured in to Indonesia
  26. in fact
  27. that one of the biggest problems the American marines now face is moving supplies from airport stockpiles to the areas devastated by the tsunami.’
  28. ‘As the stockpile of supplies has quickly disappeared so more people have joined in the ruckus
  29. desperate to get their hands on anything remaining.’
  30. ‘When a conflict occurs
  31. demand for supplies increases dramatically and existing stockpiles of materiel are depleted quickly.’
  32. ‘America would provide a safer form of atomic energy to prevent the production of a growing stockpile of nuclear weapons material.’
  33. ‘The U.S. search
  34. however
  35. has so far not found any actual stockpiles of nuclear
  36. biological or chemical weapons.’
  37. ‘Until very recently
  38. tremendous concern has been related to the immense stockpile of nuclear weapons.’