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stock up

phrasal verb with stock
 
/stɒk/
 
US  /stɑːk/ verb [T]

Definition

to buy a large quantity of something: During the emergency, people stocked up on essential items.Buying
(Definition of stock up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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