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  • noun Plural form of stockroom.

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Examples

  • Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green has plans to cull up to 260 stores, amid predictions of a cut-price Christmas as clothing chains crank up the discounting to shift unsold coats and boots languishing in stockrooms after the mild autumn.

    Hard times on the high street mean an unhappy Christmas at the Treasury 2011

  • More Economists React Consumers Spend, but Not Happy About It The U.S. economy grew at a slower pace in the third quarter than initially reported as businesses pared inventories, confirming the recovery's weakness but signaling future gains when companies replenish their stockrooms.

    Economy Grows at 2% Pace Josh Mitchell 2011

  • Maggs played in a band called Talkover, worked as a DJ in various minor clubs and in department store stockrooms and other undemanding jobs, before fetching up like a prodigal son in the family business he initially wanted to avoid.

    A working life: The rare-book dealer Mark Tran 2010

  • Sellers built up inventory in the first half of the year, and Altria said volumes could be particularly weak in the third quarter as retailers work through their loaded stockrooms.

    Altria Profit Falls 57% on Charges Melissa Korn 2011

  • The before and after photographs of stockrooms and production lines tell pretty much the whole story (some of these photos are reprinted in the study's back pages).

    In defense of middle management Ray Fisman 2010

  • The data showed auto dealers and other retailers sold goods faster than they replenished stockrooms.

    Retail Sales, Producer Prices Increase Jeff Bater 2010

  • It could deliver orders to stores in two days, rather than five weeks, and lower the average time materials spent in factory stockrooms from 18 days to three.

    Made In Japan 2008

  • I do remember a thousand years ago being in a similar London with a stronger dollar and searching for an unreleased-in-States Everything but the Girl disc, in the rain, from store to store, with excited service reps looking in stockrooms, and me getting all riled up at the prospect of a Real Find.

    Richard Laermer: Getting or Finding? Sad Truth About Shopping (Replete With Gerunds Galore) 2008

  • These scavenger nerds and nebbishes had to learn new skills as the grocery warehouses and department store stockrooms tapped out and we were forced to live off the largesse of the land.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

  • These scavenger nerds and nebbishes had to learn new skills as the grocery warehouses and department store stockrooms tapped out and we were forced to live off the largesse of the land.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

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