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is understocked
verb
To stock with an insufficient amount.
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Just as his fridge is understocked (he hopes to cajole guests into going out and paying for dinner), his play I Could Say More is under-stuffed with clear characters, good dialogue or any motivation explaining why these people are friends in the first place.
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Inventory data drives replenishment: Inaccurate stock data results in some items being overstocked (when inventory is understated in the system) and other items being understocked (when inventory is overstated in the system).
That dim, cluttered, understocked image is getting a makeover.
A provincial town's understocked zoo is allocated an elephant – "three thousand rabbits were a poor substitute for the noble giant".
But if Nadya tires of clicking on elusive food items for Pat-tricks at markets that are perpetually understocked, there is another option: she can always try going to McDonald's.
Tellingly, the behind closed doors area where industry insiders could get priority access to games was tiny and understocked; PSX is intended as a gathering for what former Sony America President and CEO Jack Tretton termed "the PlayStation Nation" and within its walls everyone's an equal.
We're fortunate that instead of being overstocked we're still understocked because our brand is still growing faster than our ability to produce.
Finally, for those seeking more familiar comforts: Billy Wilder's The Apartment is new to the service's still understocked library of pre-1970s clandits, and itslyly inscription of its era's shifting sexual politics within accepted romantic-comedy still gleams bright and sharp as a tiepin.
In young stands with high severity burns, jack pine regeneration averaged only 1164 seedlings per hectare which is well below current stand densities indicating a potentially understocked future forest.
He compares previous atlases to an understocked library because too often "the book you need is not there".
A cheap mob place trying to be Vegas, with an understocked bar and slots from yesteryear.
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