stock up
— Phrasal Verb with stock /stɒk/ verb [T] COMMERCEDefinition
› to buy a large quantity of something: There are genuine reductions to take advantage of, and it could be worth stocking up.stock up on sth Before the storm arrived, Jamaicans rushed to stores to stock up on bottled water.
(Definition of stock up from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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