dead stock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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