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dead stock

dead stock is the alternative form of deadstock.

Meaning of deadstock

Noun

deadstock (countable and uncountable, plural deadstocks)

  1. Merchandise that has not yielded any use yet: from the view of the businessperson, one that has failed to be sold or processed and is now stowed away for possible sale or manufacturing at a later date, from the view of the consumer, a piece that has been obtained but not found application and is now—perhaps even with original labelling or packaging—stored for future ideas.
    • No newsboy could possibly have got half way to Fairfax with any copies of the TIMES "unsold:" -- he wouldn't have had one left by the time he had crossed the Potomac, but would have fallen back on his dead stock of Tribunes and Heralds.1861, “SUPERFLUOUS INDIGNATION.”, in The New York Times
  2. Agricultural implements and stored produce, distinguished from livestock.
    • […]examining in turn, the husbandry of livestock, the consumption of domestic deadstock, and hunting in the earlier Neolithic,[…]2013, Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe

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Forms of dead stock

pluraldead stocks

Questions about dead stock

What is dead stock the alternative form of?
Dead stock is the alternative form of deadstock.

Words near dead stock in the dictionary

  1. dead stands
  2. dead stick
  3. dead sticked
  4. dead sticking
  5. dead sticks
  6. dead stock
  7. dead stocks
  8. dead stop
  9. dead stops
  10. dead tail
  11. dead time

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