Word Meanings - OVERSTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stock in excess. Tatler.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERSTOCK)

• Glut
• Surplus
• redundancy
• superfluity
• overstock

Related words: (words related to OVERSTOCK)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• OVERSTOCK
  Stock in excess. Tatler.
• SURPLUSAGE
  Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.
• CONSUMER'S SURPLUS
  The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to,
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant