Other forms: restocking, restocked, restocks
To restock is to fill the shelves again. Restock the shelves, restocked overnight, waiting to restock.
When it happens decides what is available, and the whole science of stock control is about ordering early enough not to run out and late enough not to tie up money. Restocking a river or a lake means releasing fish into it. Note that the re- means again.
1verbrestockTo fill the shelves again.
“The supermarket restocks its shelves every night after closing time.”
restock is a refilling.
Middle English
stok
English
stock
English, today
restock
Built from
From re- + stock. stock comes from Middle English stok. From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic stokk, from Proto-Germanic stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. a doublet of chock.
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