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Deadstock

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    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

    "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."

  2. 2
    Agricultural implements and stored produce, distinguished from livestock. countable, uncountable

    "[…]examining in turn, the husbandry of livestock, the consumption of domestic deadstock, and hunting in the earlier Neolithic,[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To store in appropriate packaging for later. slang, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dead + stock.

Etymology 2

From dead + stock.

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