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  • noun Plural form of stockpiler.

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Examples

  • The UK and Germany, both major stockpilers, announced that they each have destroyed more than 60 percent of their stockpiles.

    Human Rights Watch: Cluster Bomb Ban Powers Ahead Despite U.S. Absence Human Rights Watch 2011

  • The UK and Germany, both major stockpilers, announced that they each have destroyed more than 60 percent of their stockpiles.

    Human Rights Watch: Cluster Bomb Ban Powers Ahead Despite U.S. Absence Human Rights Watch 2011

  • It's a favorite condiment of stockpilers because, as a voiceover tells us, "Since mustard doesn't spoil, it can be stored indefinitely."

    Five Reasons Why Extreme Couponing Is Extremely Entertaining 2011

  • The exchange company suggested that listed stockpilers be required to spend 85% of any IPO proceeds on purchasing actual commodities, as well as providing regular updates to investors as to the market value of materials held.

    SEC Blocks Nasdaq Proposal for 'Stockpiler' Listings Jacob Bunge 2011

  • Shares in such stockpilers could also be prone to manipulation by those with advance access to market-moving information on a company's preferred commodity, regulators said, or those that might spread false information to move the stock.

    SEC Blocks Nasdaq Proposal for 'Stockpiler' Listings Jacob Bunge 2011

  • The war the rifles were to help the Kremlin win was not fought by the means the stockpilers had planned, and the armories stood as powerful attractants for all manner of opportunists.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the United States -- all major producers and stockpilers -- are absent from the Dublin talks.

    McCain Attacks Obama For Refusing To Go On "Baghdad Stroll" 2009

  • The U.S. government, which controls 25 percent of the country's supply of flu medication, isn't much help to would-be stockpilers: all the doses released by the Department of Homeland Security will go to public clinics and support teams, not private distributors.

    Healthy Hoarders 2009

  • The site's creator, 24-year-old Miami college student Kenneth Sahr, started his repository of about 50 papers so far by e-mailing fraternities, notorious stockpilers of homework.

    Cheat Sheet 2008

  • And there aren't enough middle-class stockpilers to boost consumer spending enough to meaningfully offset a downturn in the economy.

    As Food Prices Rise, 2008

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