Definition
› goods of which you have more than you need: We're trying to sell off our overstock/s of last year's diaries.Products and producersBuying and selling in generalToo much and unnecessaryProducts and producersBuying and selling in generalToo much and unnecessary
(Definition of overstock noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- be up to your neck in sth idiom
- bellyful noun
- binge noun
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- groundless adjective
- gush noun (EXPRESSION)
- have sth coming out of your ears idiom
- have your (fair) share of sth idiom
- hyper- prefix
- immoderate adjective
- overdose noun
- overly adverb
- overmuch adverb, adjective
- oversupply noun
- play gooseberry idiom
- plenty pronoun, noun, adverb
- unnecessary adjective
- unwarranted adjective
- weigh sb/sth down phrasal verb
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