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  • verb To reduce the amount of stock held (by a retail establishment)

Etymologies

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de- +‎ stock

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Examples

  • Corporate efforts to slash inventories -- or "destock" -- amid sliding demand have added significantly to the economic uncertainty facing the industrial sector heading into 2009.

    Orders Slow As Businesses Tap Inventory 2008

  • You gave some pretty detailed commentary that, it seems distribution continues to kind of destock where they can.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009

  • The one key positive is that in every region outside the U.S., growth is already way below trend, suggesting that a destock and real demand downturn are impossible.

    Steel Prices Reach a Fork in the Road Rhiannon Hoyle 2012

  • The business is however expected to weaken somewhat in the third quarter, as important panel producers have started to destock.

    Merck KGaA Cuts Profit Forecast Natascha Divac 2011

  • But what we ' ve seen is that the inventory levels, in the U.S. and globally, are starting to destock.

    Oil Climbs Above $89 a Barrel Jerry A. DiColo 2010

  • The Herald, quoting the country's top government veterinarian, said farmers in the area had refused to destock in the hope that summer rains would restore grazing.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • In addition, large farmers assured of drought relief have done little to ensure they farm in a sustainable manner, taking risks by planting unsuitable crops or failing to destock.

    ANC Agricultural Policy 1994

  • "The oil market continues to destock as prices anticipate a potential crisis," the economists said.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • "The oil market continues to destock as prices anticipate a potential crisis," the economists said.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • It was when the financial system really imploded that financial firms stopped extending credit to anybody that the corporate world had to destock and we know what happened after that.

    unknown title 2011

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