Crossword clues for stockpile
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A supply of something kept safe for future use. vb. To accumulate a stockpile.
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Wikipedia
A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk material handling process.
Stockpiles are used in many different areas, such as in a port, refinery or manufacturing facility. The stockpile is normally created by a stacker. A reclaimer is used to recover the material. Stockpiles are normally stacked in stockyards in refineries, ports and mine sites.
A simple stockpile is formed by machinery dumping coal into a pile, either from dump trucks, pushed into heaps with bulldozers or from conveyor booms. More controlled stockpiles are formed using stackers to form piles along the length of a conveyor, and reclaimers to retrieve the coal when required for product loading, etc.
In military preparation, to stockpile is to move materiel, personnel, and command and control infrastructure to a suitable location in preparation for deployment, or to move such materials into the theatre of war in preparation for combat.
Category:Military terminology
A stockpile is a temporary storage method used in bulk material handling.
Stockpile may also refer to:
- Stockpile (military), a staging tactic involving the grouping of resources
- Soil Stockpile, a method of storing topsoil during civil construction
- The hoarding of commodities when cornering the market (an illegal financial strategy)
- Stockpile (company), a 2015 startup company specializing in fractional stock share gift cards
Usage examples of "stockpile".
His success was due solely to his own natural vigor and energy and the smartness of Marsh Folsom, who could read and write and because of this could go some way to deciphering some of the meager clues they had found in the original Apps caverns and other Stockpiles.
Russia and China had racism, oppression, state-mandated feticide, imperialism, gulags, religious intolerance, expanding nuclear stockpiles and enough murdered dissidents and purged peasants to make the Altamont Rock Festival look like a half-filled phone booth.
As national stockpiles of metals dwindled in the mid-1990s, the price of minerals extracted from the sea by Forte Oceanic Resources skyrocketed.
She consumes all of her carefully stockpiled energies, and for the first time in her life, she weaves a body for herself: A distinct physical shell composed of diamond dust and keratin and discarded rare earths and a dozen subtle glues meant to bind to every surface without being felt.
Arming himself with the stockpile Pig had abandoned, Knoop joined the struggle.
Camps would be set up for Iraqi citizens fleeing the battle, and a logistics base for nongovernmental relief organizations would be established southwest of the city to stockpile humanitarian aid.
No point now in stockpiling ore for without the barge and the landing craft we had no means of ferrying it out to the ship.
The next item is the stockpiling of pressure vessels to serve as fuel tanks and habitats for the rendezvous mission.
The plan that emerged called for such measures as stockpiling relief supplies in bordering countries.
Chosen would be quite effective against the hillside defenses of the Heaveners, so John had appropriated the entire True Worder stockpile.
Around them was a profusion of fancy Italian pastries: pyramids of biscotti, stockpiles of zeppole dusted with confectionery sugar, brightly glazed frolli di uova, heaped mille foglie.
In an analysis that is over thirty years old and conducted long before we developed the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile and early-mobilization program, the World Health Organization estimated in 1970 that the release of aerosolized anthrax over a densely populated area with 5 million people could result in 250,000 casualties, 100,000 of whom would die unless treated.
Currently, the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile has enough antibiotics to fully treat two million people after an anthrax exposure, and recent federal funding will soon increase that number to millions more.
Promising new vaccines are being developed, and one of our top priorities in safeguarding our nation against possible anthrax attacks is to develop, manufacture, and stockpile a new generation of vaccine.
Crocus walked with her father and the Shaman to the bone stockpile, a short distance from the mastodont stockade.