stockpile of weapons

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• stockpile — 1. noun a stockpile of weapons Syn: stock, store, supply, accumulation, collection, reserve, hoard, cache; informal stash 2. verb food had been stockpiled Syn: store up, amass, accumulate, store (up), stock up on …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Stockpile stewardship — refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing. Because no new nuclear weapons have been developed by the United States since 1992, even its youngest weapons… …   Wikipedia

• stockpile — ▪ I. stockpile stockpile 2 noun [countable] COMMERCE a large supply of goods, weapons etc that are being kept for use in the future, often because they will be difficult to obtain later: • Following poor harvests, stockpiles of grain are expected …   Financial and business terms

• stockpile — I UK [ˈstɒkˌpaɪl] / US [ˈstɑkˌpaɪl] noun [countable] Word forms stockpile : singular stockpile plural stockpiles a large collection of things that may be needed The country is believed to have stockpiles of chemical weapons. II UK [ˈstɒkˌpaɪl] /… …   English dictionary

• stockpile — stock|pile1 [ˈstɔkpaıl US ˈsta:k ] n a large supply of things that is kept ready for use in the future = ↑store stockpile of ▪ a stockpile of nuclear weapons stockpile 2 stockpile2 v [T] to keep adding to a supply of goods, weapons etc that you… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• stockpile — [[t]stɒ̱kpaɪl[/t]] stockpiles, stockpiling, stockpiled 1) VERB If people stockpile things such as food or weapons, they store large quantities of them for future use. [V n] People are stockpiling food for the coming winter. Syn: hoard 2) N COUNT …   English dictionary

• stockpile — stock|pile1 [ stak,paıl ] noun count a large collection of things that may be needed: The country is believed to have stockpiles of chemical weapons. stockpile stock|pile 2 [ stak,paıl ] verb transitive to collect large amounts of things that may …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• stockpile to target sequence — 1. The order of events involved in removing a nuclear weapon from storage and assembling, testing, transporting, and delivering it on the target. 2. A document that defines the logistic and employment concepts and related physical environments… …   Military dictionary

• stockpile — I. noun Date: 1872 a storage pile: as a. a reserve supply of something essential accumulated within a country for use during a shortage b. a gradually accumulated reserve of something < avert stockpiles of unsold cars Bert Pierce > II. transitive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• stockpile — stockpiler, n. /stok puyl /, n., v., stockpiled, stockpiling. n. 1. a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance. 2. a large supply of some metal, chemical, food, etc., gathered and held in reserve for use during a shortage or… …   Universalium

• stockpile weapons — collect weapons, accumulate weapons, amass weapons …   English contemporary dictionary