Meaning & use
Understock
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To supply with an insufficient quantity of goods or stock.
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The store tends to understock popular items right before the holidays.
Farmers who understock their pastures may leave grazing land underused.
A note on using this word
Understock is common in retail and agricultural contexts, describing the opposite problem to overstocking.
Words with a similar meaning
underprovisionunder-supply
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Words with an opposite meaning
overstock
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