stockout

== English == === Alternative forms === stock out, stock-out === Etymology === Deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock. === Noun === stockout (plural stockouts) (business) An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory. Coordinate term: overstock ==== Translations ==== === References === “stock out, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2018.