Usually means: Excess inventory exceeding current demand.
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  1. overstock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overstock: Merriam-Webster
  3. overstock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overstock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overstock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overstock: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overstock, overstock: Wordnik
  8. overstock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overstock: Wiktionary
  10. overstock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overstock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overstock: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overstock, overstock: Dictionary.com
  14. overstock (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Overstock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overstock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overstock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overstock: Rhymezone
  19. Overstock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overstock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overstock: FreeDictionary.org
  22. overstock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overstock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overstock: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  To stock to an excessive degree.
▸ noun:  An excessive stock; a surplus or glut.

Similar:
overstore, overstuff, oversupply, overbuy, overpurchase, overinvest, overstaff, overload, oversell, oversupplement, more...

Opposite:
understock

Adjectives:
large, huge, casual, present, vast, temporary
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Similar:
overstore, overstuff, oversupply, overbuy, overpurchase, overinvest, overstaff, overload, oversell, oversupplement, more...

Opposite:
understock

Adjectives:
large, huge, casual, present, vast, temporary



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