restock
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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restocks,
present (3rd person singular)
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restocked,
past participle, past
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restocking
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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restocksimple
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restockssimple
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have restockedperfect
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has restockedperfect
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am restockingprogressive
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are restockingprogressive
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is restockingprogressive
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have been restockingperfect progressive
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has been restockingperfect progressive
Past
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restockedsimple
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had restockedperfect
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was restockingprogressive
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were restockingprogressive
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had been restockingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of restock
Example Sentences
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Carney on Wednesday asked the provinces to restock US booze.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Along the George River there are plenty of hotels, bars and pubs to keep the Tartan Army occupied, if they've managed to restock their beer that is.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
I either overspend on food items, failing to take advantage of hidden deals as I frantically yet desperately attempt to restock my kitchen.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
While those talks were early and wide-ranging, they were aimed at enlisting automakers to restock supplies depleted by wars in Ukraine and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Between playing basketball with the guys all last week and getting Yuki, I’d forgotten to restock.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
Despite several restocks, supplies had run out at many locations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Snoopy stickers have already sold out on Ulta.com, Starface founder Julie Schott said in an emailed statement, adding that the brand is fielding requests for restocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Second Chance, which opened in April 2023, restocks its uniform donations daily and customers are able to access items without needing a referral service.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
He restocks the stations with gallon jugs of water, trims away overgrown grass, and ensures the GPS coordinates are still visible on the underside of the barrel lids.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Ron comes out from his office and hums along as he restocks the receipt paper.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
The recreational lake is open year-round and is restocked with fish from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Only then, when a small surplus is forecast, can energy inventories that are rapidly depleting be restocked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Who cares if it’s “childish”? Just maybe don’t spend your entire savings on your fragrances of choice—Cry Baby Milk will be restocked, Martinez confirmed on their instagram story.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
The gift shop shelves are restocked the next morning until the figurines are gone again.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Hazleton began buying more monkeys from the Philippines, from the same monkey house near Manila, and restocked the building with crab-eating monkeys that had been trapped in the rain forests of Mindanao.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
“I guess my interior monologue is highly interpretable to people, and if you’re standing in a store and you see somebody really thinking and thinking, they’re like, ‘She must be restocking the shelves.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
To keep the company’s roughly 20% return rate steady, it also charges a restocking fee—which it recently doubled to 20% of the purchase price, or higher for select designer gowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Prices hold steady as restocking in China picks up ahead of the week-long May Labor Day holidays, ANZ Research notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
But the real test will come as countries begin restocking for next winter.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Plus, something I had forgotten in the years since I was eighteen: about a third of a server’s job is “side work” invisible to customers—sweeping, scrubbing, slicing, refilling, and restocking.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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