stockout

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: stockouts

A stockout is running out of an item altogether. Cause a stockout.

It costs more than the sale, since a customer who cannot buy often buys elsewhere for good. A stockout is the reason warehouses hold safety stock they hope never to touch.

Definitions of stockout

1nounstockoutRunning out of an item altogether.C1
“The stockout lasted nine days and cost them the contract.”

stockout is a shortage.

Where it comes from

From the phrase out of stock, turned round into a noun the way a shortfall or a shutdown is.

a deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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stockout

Other forms: stockouts

A stockout is running out of an item altogether. Cause a stockout.

It costs more than the sale, since a customer who cannot buy often buys elsewhere for good. A stockout is the reason warehouses hold safety stock they hope never to touch.

Definitions of stockout

1nounstockoutRunning out of an item altogether.C1
“The stockout lasted nine days and cost them the contract.”

stockout is a shortage.

Where it comes from

From the phrase out of stock, turned round into a noun the way a shortfall or a shutdown is.

a deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA