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UNDERSTOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does understock mean?
• UNDERSTOCK (verb)
The verb UNDERSTOCK has 1 sense:
1. stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity
Familiarity information: UNDERSTOCK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they understock ... he / she / it understocks
Past simple: understocked
Past participle: understocked
-ing form: understocking
... he / she / it understocks Past simple: understocked
Past participle: understocked
-ing form: understocking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "understock" is one way to...):
buy in; stock; stock up (amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
overstock (stock excessively)
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