Usually means: Reserves accumulated for future use.
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  1. stockpiles: Merriam-Webster
  2. stockpiles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stockpiles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Stockpiles, stockpiles: Wordnik
  5. stockpiles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stockpiles: Wiktionary
  7. stockpiles: Dictionary.com
  8. stockpiles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. stockpiles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stockpiles: Legal dictionary

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  1. stockpiles: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stockpile)

noun:  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.
noun:  (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
noun:  (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).
verb:  (specifically, military, weaponry) To build up a stock of (nuclear weapons).
verb:  (mining) To heap up piles of (coal or ore) on the ground after it has been mined.
verb:  (intransitive) To build up a supply; to accumulate.
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