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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
November 10, 2006

Stockpile

stockpile (verb, noun) - store large quantities for future use


Example sentences:

* A sharp drop in wool exports and an unprecedented wool stockpile forced the government to act.

* With predictions that the rice stockpile could more than double in the next two years, the government acted.

* Ford is stopping production for five weeks to reduce a huge stockpile of unsold cars.

* His automobile dealership is trying to clear the stockpile of vehicles that stubbornly refused to move this month.

* Aside from the stockpile, about four million tonnes of rice sold at prices lower than cost through the pledging programme have caused losses to the state of about 18 billion baht.

* In spite of having a stockpile of $200 million Sir David could still not afford the company.

* Buy the materials you need, there is no need for you to stockpile since stockpiling is expensive and leads to losses.

* Purchases have been trimmed back and we are striving to stockpile the scarce material we need.

* The government plans to stockpile fuel for a possible war which has sent world oil prices higher.

* Currently we keep a 96-day stockpile, long enough to last through the war that oil analysts predict.

* The stockpile of crude oil is known as the strategic petroleum reserve and, apart from a test

* At the end of the Cold War the stockpile of nuclear weapons of nuclear weapons was reduced significantly.


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