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noun
An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.
Across languages
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