Sentence examples for understock from inspiring English sources
verb
To stock with an insufficient amount.
- If you understock the shop, you'll run out of goods while there are still customers wanting to buy them.
And then we have to cut a piece that is as close as possible to the same size as the piece we took out of the understock.
Abstract seed propagation is limited in horticultural practice to a few species used as understock and for landscaping, some perfume plants, and to varietal creation.
Now we're ready to place the bud scion that we've just cut from the scion donor plant, like a Macintosh apple tree, for example, place it into the space that we've cut out of the understock.
A stochastic model would need to balance the trade-offs between understock and overstock situations, which is specifically relevant in the case of perishable items.
And this is all controlled by the genetic makeup up of the understock, not the genetics of the scion.
Mr Jones said then that the shops had got into trouble because they had understocked "the kind of clothes that my wife and my secretary would wear".
(Dallas's brand-new Barneys, misjudging the tastes of its clientele, chronically understocks its formalwear).
(A decade ago, the L.R.B. opened an eponymous bookstore in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum. Beard's was one of the first inscriptions in the guest-book: "Nice feel. Rather understocked with the works of M. Beard").
An adjoining mini supermarket, where visitors can take one item from the fridge and one from the freezer, is perennially understocked.
In 2002, in a petition to the Clark County District Court, a fifty-seven-year-old man complained that his mother had lost her constitutional rights because her kitchen was understocked and a few bills hadn't been paid.
