overstock

[US]/əʊvə'stɒk/
[UK]/ˌovɚ'stɑk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. stock too much
v. excessive stocking, excess inventory

Example Sentences

The store is having a sale to get rid of overstock items.

The warehouse is full of overstocked inventory.

The company needs to clear out the overstock before ordering more supplies.

The overstocked items are being sold at a discounted price.

The overstock situation is causing storage space issues.

The overstocked goods are taking up valuable warehouse space.

The store manager is working on a plan to reduce overstock levels.

The overstock problem is affecting the company's cash flow.

The overstocked inventory needs to be liquidated quickly.

The overstock issue is causing delays in new product launches.

Real-world Examples

How do you account for that? No demand or overstock?

Source: Foreign Trade English Topics King

The market is here overstocked both with commodities and with labour.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part One)

In these different operations, its duty to the public may sometimes have obliged it, without any fault of its directors, to overstock the circulation with paper money.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Two)

Had every particular banking company always understood and attended to its own particular interest, the circulation never could have been overstocked with paper money.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Two)

By the one institution, they secured to themselves the monopoly of the home market, and by the other they endeavoured to prevent that market from ever being overstocked with their commodity.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

But every particular banking company has not always understood or attended to its own particular interest, and the circulation has frequently been overstocked with paper money.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Two)

That market will very seldom be overstocked; but it will generally be understocked; the people, whose business it is to supply it, being generally afraid lest their goods should be left upon their hands.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

The market would be so much understocked with labour in the one case, and so much overstocked in the other, as would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of the society required.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part One)

But it is not the interest of merchants and manufacturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstocked with their goods; an event which a bounty upon production might sometimes occasion.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

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