stockpiling
備蓄する
解説 Definition
stockpiling は stockpile（備蓄する、蓄える）の現在分詞・動名詞です。食料や燃料、物資などを将来に備えて大量にためておく場合に使われます。
Stockpiling means collecting and storing a large quantity of food, fuel, equipment, or another resource for future use, especially in preparation for an emergency, shortage, or expected increase in demand.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 stockpile「備蓄する」の現在分詞・動名詞で、語末の黙字 e を落として stockpiling となります。stock「在庫」と pile「山」を合わせ、「将来必要になる物を山のように蓄える」と捉えましょう。stockpiling food, water, fuel の組み合わせが典型です。
Break stockpile into stock, meaning a supply kept available, and pile, meaning a heap. Stockpiling therefore creates the image of building a large stored supply for later. It is the -ing form of stockpile: the final silent e is dropped before -ing. Common objects are food, water, fuel, medicine, and masks. Unlike simply storing something, stockpiling usually suggests accumulating a substantial amount because a shortage, emergency, or future need is expected.
例文
The town is stockpiling food for emergencies.
その町は緊急時に備えて食料を備蓄しています。
They began stockpiling clean water before the storm arrived.
彼らは嵐が来る前に飲み水の備蓄を始めました。
The hospital is stockpiling masks to avoid a shortage.
その病院は不足を避けるためにマスクを備蓄しています。
stockpiling の類義語・関連語
stockpiling の語源・成り立ち Etymology
stockpilingはstock「在庫・蓄え」とpile「積み上げる」の複合語です。stockは古英語stocc「幹・棒」、pileはラテン語pila系「柱・積み重ね」にさかのぼり、「物を山のように積んで持っておく」から「備蓄する」という意味になりました。関連語はstock, pileです。
Stockpiling is the -ing form of the compound verb stockpile, formed from stock and pile. Stock comes through Old English stocc, originally referring to a trunk, stump, or post, and later developed senses involving stored supplies. Pile entered English through French and Latin forms associated with a pillar or mass. A stockpile was literally a piled supply; the noun later produced the verb meaning to accumulate goods for future use.
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