stockout
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.
Noun
stockout (plural stockouts)
- (business) An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.
- Coordinate term: overstock
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References
- “stock out, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2018.