deadstock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Merchandise that has not yielded any use yet: from the view of the businessperson, one that has failed to be sold or processed and is now stowed away for possible sale or manufacturing at a later date, from the view of the consumer, a piece that has been obtained but not found application and is now—perhaps even with original labelling or packaging—stored for future ideas.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Agricultural implements and stored produce, distinguished from livestock.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "No newsboy could possibly have got half way to Fairfax with any copies of the TIMES "unsold:" -- he wouldn't have had one left by the time he had crossed the Potomac, but would have fallen back on his dead stock of Tribunes and Heralds."
- "the small space is a goldmine of never-been-worn big-name deadstock, including threads by Miu Miu, Alberta Ferretti and Stella McCartney,[…]"
- "[…]examining in turn, the husbandry of livestock, the consumption of domestic deadstock, and hunting in the earlier Neolithic,[…]"
- "Poultry housing is the 'dead stock' of a poultry unit and as such represents a considerable portion of the capital outlay,[…]"