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