buffer stock

Yet Iraq has buffer stocks that, in the case of food, could last until winter.

The group has tried to control the market by buying beans for a buffer stock.

Indeed this is what should have been done to stop the actions of the buffer stock Manager.

The delegates will spend the rest of this week trying to complete the rules for buffer stock operations.

The only way to reduce the impact of rises in commodity prices on inflation is by holding buffer stocks.

Such usage will invariably absorb some of the buffer stock unless planned deliveries are made on time.

And it would require building up buffer stocks to levels that could smooth over temporary supply disruptions.

Job guarantee, and associated concept of "buffer stock"

"The main issue in the negotiations is the economic provisions that relate to the buffer stock pricing mechanism.

Buffer stocks are reserve stocks held for emergency shortages.

Rice was imported to bolster buffer stocks.

There are no buffer stocks.

Large buffer stocks can offset temporary supply disruptions - and radically change oil exporters' calculations.

The International Cocoa Organization has been struggling to agree on the price that its buffer stock would defend.

The unemployment buffer stock has been a fait accompli for the past 25 years.

The buffer stock of coconuts analogy is not applicable to a free-floating non-convertible credit system.

There had also been a long-term rundown of producer stock levels, especially of US grain buffer stocks.

This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree.

Cycle stock (Used in batch processes, it is the available inventory, excluding buffer stock)

Most buffer stock schemes work along the same rough lines: first, two prices are determined, a floor and a ceiling (minimum and maximum price).

Large inventory stocks are dispensed with, and the circulation of capital in 'dead' buffer stock is minimized.

Bulog influenced the domestic rice price by operating a buffer stock on the order of 2 million tons during the 1980s.

The Federal Government operates a combined stockpile and buffer stock, into which commercial producers deposit helium when demand is low, for later withdrawal if necessary.

The latter is particularly vulnerable to delays in deliveries for items which are used continuously, and for which minimum buffer stocks are held.

Poor DSA can result in enhanced buffer stock being carried to compensate for suppliers that fail to deliver on time.