stockout

English

Alternative forms

• stock out, stock-out

Etymology

Compounded form of stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.

Noun

stockout (plural stockouts)

1. (business) An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: voorraadtekort n
• Finnish: varaston loppuminen
• French: rupture de stock (fr) f
• Polish: brak artykułów m

References

• “stock out, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018.