stockpile

1. 1.

   have on hand

   “Do you carry kerosene heaters?”

   Synonymsstockcarry

   Broaderhave

Other forms of stockpile

plural

stockpiles·

past tense

stockpiled·

present participle

stockpiling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stockpile

What does stockpile mean?

stockpile means "something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stockpile?

stockpile has 2 syllables: stoc-kpile. The stress falls on "stoc". In IPA it is /ˈstɑkˌpaɪl/.

What is another word for stockpile?

Close synonyms include reserve, backlog, stock, carry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stockpile a common word?

stockpile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with stockpile?

3 words rhyme with stockpile. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.