to overstock
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4.5
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈstɑk/
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- The store decided to overstock on holiday decorations to attract more customers this season.
- overstocking its stores
Examples
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In other words, they often have a warehouse of overstocked books from the past several years.
Academic text (2014) -
Cichlids also appreciate their own territory, so it is important not to overstock home aquariums.
Blog text (14) -
But in the lean time, after the end of the French War when the British army was no longer here to spend money, my father found himself overstocked like other merchants.
Fiction book (1994) -
After the sale, we realized we had overstocked items that we couldn't sell.
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To avoid running out, they will overstock essential supplies before the storm hits.
Synonyms
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3.9
To put too much into something so it spills out
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4.6
To put too much into something so it cannot close or is too full
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6.5
Fill a market or area with too much of something so people lose interest
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5.3
To sell so many of a product that people stop buying more unless prices fall
To give more of something than people can use
Antonyms
How Stocked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overstock comes from over meaning 'too much' and stock meaning 'goods kept to sell', so picture a shop with too many boxes on the shelves. A helpful image is piles of goods that cannot be sold, which makes it easy to remember that to overstock is to supply more items than are needed. That's why the word means filling a place with more goods than can be sold.