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Antonyms for overstock

Grammar : Noun
Spell : verb oh-ver-stok; noun oh-ver-stok
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˌoʊ vərˈstɒk; noun ˈoʊ vərˌstɒk

Definition of overstock

Origin :
  • 1640s, from over- + stock (v.). Related: Overstocked; overstocking. The noun is attested from 1710.
  • noun surplus
Example sentences :
  • When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell off their sheep, and thus become liable to an overstock.
  • Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo
  • But it is not an overstock, for they have all India as a prey.
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Not until he had accumulated an overstock of bridge-iron did he think of using iron for the frames of buildings.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard
  • I hear the skeptic say: You will overstock the market, and your fruit will not pay the cost of transportation.
  • Extract from : « Florida: Past and present » by Samuel Curtis Upham
  • At times, such is the overstock of importations, that goods are sold at lower prices in Valparaiso than in Europe.
  • Extract from : « Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests » by J. J. von Tschudi
  • Some people think it possible to overstock a district with bees; but we do not think it ever has occurred in Great Britain.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 698 » by Various
  • You see there was no overstock of modesty among us, more than there is among most healthy boys.
  • Extract from : « Fernley House » by Laura E. Richards
  • If you overstock your garden, it will give you many pangs to see how the plants in it suffer from the effect of crowding.
  • Extract from : « Amateur Gardencraft » by Eben E. Rexford

Synonyms for overstock

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