overstock

English

Etymology

over- +‎ stock

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Verb

overstock (third-person singular simple present overstocks, present participle overstocking, simple past and past participle overstocked)

1. To stock to an excessive degree.

Noun

overstock (plural overstocks)

1. An excessive stock; a surplus or glut.
   • 1794, The Tatler (volume 4, page 24)

     This overstock of beauty, for which there are so few bidders, calls for an immediate supply of lovers and husbands […]