unstock

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ stock.

Verb

unstock (third-person singular simple present unstocks, present participle unstocking, simple past and past participle unstocked)

  1. (transitive) To remove the stock (supply of goods) from; to empty of goods.
    • 1978, The industrial arbitration reports, New South Wales:
      One I met during the inspections of freezer rooms indicated that her principal function was the stocking and unstocking of the freezer room at a very large supermarket.
  2. (transitive) To remove the stock (block or support) from; to release from that which fixes in place.
  3. (transitive) To remove (a ship etc.) from the stocks.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unstock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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