Strategic reserve

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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.