acopiar

v.

1 to gather.

2 to accumulate, to build up, to store, to treasure.

Ellos amontonaron mucho dinero They amassed a lot of money.

3 to supply provisions for.

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acopiar

Conjugation model [CAMBIAR], like cambiar

► verbo transitivo

1 to gather, collect

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VT (=juntar) to gather, gather together, collect; (Com) to buy up, get a monopoly of; [+ miel] to collect, hive

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= hoard, store up.

Ex. What one might call 'fetishistic bibliomania' is a disease -- and few serious book-readers, let alone librarians, are free from a squirrel-like proclivity to hoard books.

Ex. Large volumes of water can be stored up for irrigation by erecting an earthen or masonry dam across the lower part of the vally of a river or stream.

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= hoard, store up.

Ex: What one might call 'fetishistic bibliomania' is a disease -- and few serious book-readers, let alone librarians, are free from a squirrel-like proclivity to hoard books.

Ex: Large volumes of water can be stored up for irrigation by erecting an earthen or masonry dam across the lower part of the vally of a river or stream.

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acopiar [A1 ]

vt

to stockpile

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acopiar verbo transitivo to gather together, stock up: acopiaron víveres antes del bloqueo, they stock-piled goods before the blockade

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acopiar vt

to stock up on

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acopiar

v/t gather, stockpile

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acopiar vt

: to gather, to collect, to stockpile