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STOCKPILING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accumulating and storing a reserve supply
Example:
the stockpiling of war materials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stockpiling" is a kind of...):
repositing; reposition; storage; warehousing (depositing in a warehouse)
Derivation:
stockpile (have on hand)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stockpile