What does "stockout" mean?

An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.

Stockout

Common synonyms include: empty shelves, inventory shortage, local market disruption, none left, out of stock, sellouts.

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Noun

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An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.

Deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.