備び荒こう貯ちょ蓄ちく

noun

famine-relief fund; emergency grain reserve

A historical or institutional term for savings or grain stockpiled to prepare for famine or poor harvests. Not an everyday word; mostly encountered in historical, economic, or policy contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、各かく藩はんは備び荒こう貯ちょ蓄ちくとして米こめを蓄たくわえていた。

  In the Edo period, each domain stored rice as a famine-relief reserve.

• 備び荒こう貯ちょ蓄ちく制せい度どは、凶きょう作さくに備そなえるための重じゅう要ような政せい策さくだった。

  The famine-relief reserve system was an important policy to prepare for crop failures.