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stockpile

noun as in supply

verb as in stock

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This allowed Houghton and his team to develop a blood test to identify infected blood and remove it from transfusion stockpiles.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a government push to triple the stockpile of Avigan in April, allocating almost $130 million to do so, even before clinical studies of the drug’s efficacy had produced results.

From Fortune

Under the ship-and-pray model, insuring vaccine stockpiles in developing countries is prohibitively expensive because underwriters are flying blind.

From Fortune

Since most people don’t have a personal stockpile of surgical masks, many have gotten creative, fashioning masks from T-shirts, bandanas or neck gaiters.

It means looking at stockpiles, not only at national basis, regional, state-level basis.

Importantly, as part of the interim plan, Iran has diluted or converted its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium.

And its military destroyed a large portion of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.

We have a stockpile of RD-180s and AJ26s that will last two years.

They buried a stockpile of rifles and machine guns on a slope just above the building that was to house the inmates.

A bit of advice for Republican establishment types: Stockpile your Valium for March 2016.

A stockpile of the younger generation, specially educated; a stockpile of the older generation, carefully selected.

They knew there'd be a need of individuality then—and they did create a stockpile.

Next, this Government is in the storage and stockpile business to the melancholy tune of more than $16 billion.

So far, the stockpile is big enough for about a week and a half of real cold.

And they've got a stockpile of ionic bombs ready at all times in case we get out of hand.

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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stockpile, such as: accumulation, buildup, cache, hoard, inventory, and nest egg.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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