food cache
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4.5
- noun
- /fuːd kæʃ/
:
almacen de comida
- But please let me know where you are hiding your food cache... as a survivor who can't tell friends from enemies, you probably won't be around long enough to eat it all.
Examples
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The hiker was thankful to find a food cache hidden in the forest, stocked with energy bars and dried fruit.
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We suspect it's a weapons and food cache, maybe some documents.
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The idea of a dirt-hole set, she said, was to make the wolf think he'd stumbled across some other animal's food cache.
Fiction book (1998) -
An extreme case of this food-cache strategy can be seen in animals (e.g., certain insects and frogs) that produce infertile trophic eggs to nourish their newborns.
Academic text (1997) -
During winter storms, I rely on our food cache to provide essential supplies.
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In case of emergencies, the family maintains a food cache filled with canned goods and water.
Synonyms
134
4.3
A hidden store of money or things kept for later
113
1.0
A supply of things kept for future use
76
1.0
A small room or cupboard in a house where people keep food and dishes
45
4.2
A large supply of goods kept for future use
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6.0
A secret store of things like money or food kept for future use
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2.0
The amount of food available to people in a place
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6.6
A supply of food kept at home to use later
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines 'food' (edible supplies) with 'cache' (a stored/hidden supply), so its meaning — a stored supply of food — is directly and compositionally derivable from the parts. This straightforward noun+noun compounding is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Food cache comes from the simple picture of hiding food: people or animals put food into a safe hiding place, a cache, like a buried box or a hole in a tree. So food cache now means a store of food kept in a 'hidden place' for later or in an emergency.