If you ~ an amount of something, you buy it and store it to be used later.
They began to ~ extensive stores of food supplies.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
If you ~ an amount of something, you buy it and store it to be used later.
They began to ~ extensive stores of food supplies.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012