run up vs stockpile

run up

verb
  • To accumulate (a debt). 

  • To approach (an event or point in time). 

  • To thrust up, as anything long and slender. 

  • To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. 

  • To take to a destination or before an authority. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. 

  • To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. 

  • Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. 

  • To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. 

  • To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. 

  • To erect hastily, as a building. 

  • To string up; to hang. 

stockpile

verb
  • To accumulate or build up a supply of (something). 

  • To build up a stock of (nuclear weapons). 

  • To heap up piles of (coal or ore) on the ground after it has been mined. 

  • To build up a supply; to accumulate. 

noun
  • A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile. 

  • A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined. 

  • A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. 

How often have the words run up and stockpile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )