out of stock
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- idiom
- The popular toy is currently out of stock and will be available next month.
- out of stock items
- out of stock in stores
- almost out of stock
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Watch on YouTubeOK, this is Gray because the green one was out of stock in my size.
- OK, this is Gray because the green one was out of stock in my size.
- Now I know that a lot of the shades are out of stock.
- I went in to pick up more and they were like, it's out of stock.
- I have wanted to try this for so long but it is always out of stock.
- So I wanted to get this but I went on to buy this and the original like Normal one was completely out of stock.
- Some people see out of stock, other people see sold out.
- It's selling really fast and we're we're out of stock like hot kids.
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I wanted one of the laptops displayed, but it was out of stock.
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I picked up the very last black 920 over a week ago, and they're out of stock.
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I am completely out of stock at this time.
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We were out of stock for a while.
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Google should have known when their devices were out of stock or at least told me this sooner.
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If what you want is out of stock, the app will offer an online ordering option.
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"If we let everybody buy what they wanted to buy, we'd be out of stock by 2 p.m.," she said.
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This highlighter has been out of stock for the longest time and I was so happy to see these two shades at so far.
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We're out of stock.
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J&J's tampon brand was out of stock in Canada, and the company started to hear from customers online about it.
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Morphology
The meaning 'not available because sold or used up' is directly compositional from 'out' (no longer in/away) + 'stock' (inventory), with the prepositional pattern 'out of' signalling absence. This is a common, predictable English construction and is cross-linguistically transparent enough that a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase out of stock comes from shops: the word stock means the goods on a shelf, and when a shop has sold them all the shelf is literally out of that item, so the sign means 'not available' to buy.