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Buffer stock

A large quantity of a commodity held in storage to be used to stabilise the commodity's price. This is done by buying when the price is low and adding to the buffer stock, selling out of the buffer stock when the price is high, hoping to reduce the size of price fluctuations. See international commodity agreement.

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