deadstock

plural deadstocks · alternative dead-stock · alternative dead stock

1. countableuncountableMerchandise that has not yielded any use yet: from the view of the businessperson, one that has failed to be sold or processed and is now stowed away for possible sale or manufacturing at a later date, from the view of the consumer, a piece that has been obtained but not found application and is now—perhaps even with original labelling or packaging—stored for future ideas.

   the small space is a goldmine of never-been-worn big-name deadstock, including threads by Miu Miu, Alberta Ferretti and Stella McCartney,[…]

   2012, Time Out New York

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   No newsboy could possibly have got half way to Fairfax with any copies of the TIMES "unsold:" -- he wouldn't have had one left by the time he had crossed the Potomac, but would have fallen back on his dead stock of Tribunes and Heralds.

   1861, “SUPERFLUOUS INDIGNATION.”, in The New York Times

2. countableuncountableAgricultural implements and stored produce, distinguished from livestock.

   Poultry housing is the 'dead stock' of a poultry unit and as such represents a considerable portion of the capital outlay,[…]

   2014, David Bland, Practical Poultry Keeping

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   […]examining in turn, the husbandry of livestock, the consumption of domestic deadstock, and hunting in the earlier Neolithic,[…]

   2013, Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe

present singular third person deadstocks · participle present deadstocking · participle past deadstocked · past deadstocked · alternative dead-stock · alternative dead stock

1. slangtransitivefashionTo store in appropriate packaging for later.