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dead stock

British  

noun

  1. farm equipment Compare livestock

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The website for the Billie Eilish store says “all merchandise clothing uses residual dead stock from prior productions, organic or recycled polyester or cotton.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2024

After launching mostly with home textiles and making a splash with outerwear constructed out of blankets, Rave Review is now adding dead stock to their materials.

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 2024

“I wanted to support them,” she said of the label, all of it made from repurposed material, whether recycled or dead stock.

From New York Times Apr. 9, 2019

It’s dead stock and it says Endless Sun on it.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2017

The road for a few days past has been strewed with dead stock.

From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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