stock up

English

Verb

stock up (third-person singular simple present stocks up, present participle stocking up, simple past and past participle stocked up)

1. (intransitive; often with on) To acquire or increase stock or inventory.

   Troponyms: restock, overstock

   Q: What about fuel oil? A: We plan to stock up before November.

   Q: What about food? A: We're planning to stock up on canned goods before November.

2. (intransitive) To swell up (usually refers to edema in a leg).
3. To extirpate; to dig up.

Derived terms

• stock-up (noun)
• stockup (noun)

Translations

acquire or increase stock

• Azerbaijani: tədarük etmək (az), tədarük görmək
• Dutch: zich bevoorraden
• German: eindecken (de)
• Italian: rifornirsi
• Russian: запаса́ться (ru) impf (zapasátʹsja), запасти́сь (ru) pf (zapastísʹ)
• Spanish: abastecerse (es)
• Swedish: bunkra (sv), hamstra (sv)

swell up