overstocks
- present tense form of overstock (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The onsite inventory includes many new materials, overstocks, last year’s models and construction-project misorders.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Raccoons seem to regard humans as the rube roommate who overstocks the fridge and conscientiously cleans up after everyone else.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
His work includes tableaux of empty shelves, overstocks of completely unrelated products in shuttered departments, and mannequins facing inward, half naked and seemingly ashamed.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 30, 2014
Cagey shoppers can pick up Lauren's seconds and overstocks for 30% to 70% discounts at his factory-outlet stores, which are situated in such discreet locales as Appleton, Wis., and Tijuana.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are first-rate business men: no auctions, which I detest: no overstocks, which will be the ruin of New York; well assorted, and in good condition.
From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George