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stockpiles

stockpiles is the plural of stockpile.

stockpiles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stockpile.

Meaning of stockpile

Noun

stockpile (plural stockpiles)

  1. (also, figuratively) A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
    • Under the rice subsidy program, Yingluck [Shinawatra]'s administration paid farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices for their rice. The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thailand’s ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad: sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2022
    1. (also, figuratively, specifically) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
  2. (also, figuratively) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.

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Questions about stockpiles

What is stockpiles the plural of?
Stockpiles is the plural of stockpile.

Words near stockpiles in the dictionary

  1. stockpickers
  2. stockpile
  3. stockpiled
  4. stockpiler
  5. stockpilers
  6. stockpiles
  7. stockpiling
  8. stockpilings
  9. Stockport
  10. Stockports
  11. stockpot

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