Strategic reserve

Strategic reserve

"For the military term see: Military reserve"

A strategic reserve is a term used to describe a reserve of a commodity or items, held back from normal use by governments, organisations or business in pursuance of a particular strategy or to cope with unexpected events.

A strategic reserve can be:
* financial in nature such as ring fenced funding or a capital reserves of a large corporation.
* of a commodity, such as intervention stocks of food or petrol (see security of supply and strategic petroleum reserves)
* of specific machinery such a rail road cars, to be used in an emergency situation.

ee also

*Global strategic petroleum reserves
*Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve
*Strategic uranium reserves


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