OVERSTOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overstock mean? 

• OVERSTOCK (verb)
  The verb OVERSTOCK has 1 sense:

1. stock excessively

  Familiarity information: OVERSTOCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSTOCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overstock    ... he / she / it overstocks   
Past simple: overstocked   
Past participle: overstocked   
-ing form: overstocking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stock excessively

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "overstock" is one way to...):

buy in; stock; stock up (amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

understock (stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity)

 Context examples 

They were accompanied by a brief letter to the effect that the syndicate was overstocked, and that some months would elapse before it would be in the market again for manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My answer was, that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or interest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)