misstock

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verb

To stock improperly.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbmisstock (third-person singular simple present misstocks, present participle misstocking, simple past and past participle misstocked)

present singular third person misstocks · participle present misstocking · participle past misstocked · past misstocked

  1. To stock improperly.

    He knew he'd probably misstocked a few items in his distracted state.

    2014, Paul Andrews, Swept Away: A Johnstown Flood Novella
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    Locations needed to be spot checked as a quality control measure to ensure that parts were not misstocked or miscounted.

    2007 May-June, Major Shawn P. Ward, “Spare Parts Recovery and Storage at Camp Taji”, in Army Logistician, volume 39, number 3, page 43

    “Someone misstocked the drug cabinet,” he repeated in a louder voice.

    2009, Gail Fraser, The Promise of Lumby

    Or perhaps the nurse didn't check the drug name properly, the technician misread the prescription, or someone misstocked the shelves?

    2013, S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, page 90

Origin

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