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- verb Present participle of
stockpile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun accumulating and storing a reserve supply
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Examples
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Its complaints relate to a practice called early working, through which a generic company can begin stockpiling a copied drug so that it has immediate market access when the patent expires.
Strengthening Canada's Economy Within the Globl Healthcare Environment: The Need For Vision 1998
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This is far more useful competition than competition in stockpiling hydrogen bombs and all kinds of arms.
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Staying close to the problem, someone posed the idea of stockpiling food, non-perishable stuff that you could string along on while figuring out what to do when it ran out.
Short Story: "A Hard Box to Think Outside Of" (13th in a series) 2009
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The judges said there was nothing original about the idea of stockpiling vegetable purees for covert use in children's food.''
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The judges said there was nothing original about the idea of stockpiling vegetable purees for covert use in children's food.''
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The judges said there was nothing original about the idea of stockpiling vegetable purees for covert use in children's food.''
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"It is really about people nervous and stockpiling, which is a bad idea for a couple reasons," says Dr. Don Weiss of the city's Department of Health.
NY1 - Top Stories 2009
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As a cautionary note, if you use a preparer who tells you that you can complete these returns now for submission as soon as the IRS opens the gates, "stockpiling" is technically not allowed.
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Says the ACLU, "Although the bricks were acquired for masonry repairs, Denver police accused the activist of 'stockpiling' the bricks for the DNC."
Denver Police: Beware of Bicycles, Maps - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Precautions such as stockpiling antiviral drugs, closing schools, suspending travel and practicing good hygiene are necessary to help stop the spread of swine flu, but we need to take one more significant measure to prevent future epidemics of animalborne diseases: Stop raising animals for food.
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