verb
noun
Freq #173854
Meanings
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1
verb
to supply or keep more goods, animals, money, or other stock than is needed or can be used
The retailer did not want to overstock winter coats before a mild season.
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2
noun
a quantity of stock greater than demand or available capacity; surplus inventory
The warehouse sold its overstock at a substantial discount.
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Etymology
Formed from over- ('excessively') + stock. The verb is recorded from the seventeenth century; the noun developed for the resulting surplus of goods or other stock.