Overstocked
[əʊvəst'ɒkt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Overstock
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Examples
- The market is here overstocked both with commodities and with labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Brazils, Portugal, Sicily, were all overstocked by nearly two years' consumption. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They say--I have heard them say it with sneering laughs many a time--the matrimonial market is overstocked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To prevent the market from being overstocked, too, they have sometimes, in plentiful years, we are told by Dr Douglas {Douglas's Summary, vol. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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