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  • noun Stock remaining that has not yet been sold.

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back +‎ stock

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Examples

  • Blech II: Blechsdöttir [1996] - another classic, this one dating from 1996. for this mix strictly kev and pc were asked to dig through the crates of warp label backstock to create a hip hop mix with electronic music.

    piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged Jan Zup[ping]er 2010

  • Therefore Tower probably doesn't have a large backstock on top sellers but would have a relatively high quantity of low and medium sellers left.

    What I Learned at the Tower Records Going Out of Business Sale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Action Presidents is a future follow up to Action Philosophers .... if Marvel continues to do these great alt styled comics on their digital comics service, I may yet get one, though I wish they had a service option for "original digitals" and all their backstock at 2 prices.

    Talking with Ryan Dunlavey about M.O.D.O.K. | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • I hear Commie has quite a backstock of those and is willing to let them go for $17 Canadian and a handy.

    BSNYC Frizzy Fur Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • The usual is to make them be current in setting and plastic figurines so that kids will like them more, but the problem is that there is usually a bit of a backstock of plastic figurines...

    Truth in Advertising 2009

  • In recent years they hybridized the sf section shelving in such a way that it didn't have any usable backstock, so the shelves were always too crowded, and then they would go through and do store-initiated returns to clear up space, so they were frequently without books they were supposed to have.

    Archive 2009-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Odd and the Frost Giants **** is no longer in print, but copies can be found Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, as well as in many bookshops' backstock, and is well worth a look.

    Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman Adam Whitehead 2009

  • In recent years they hybridized the sf section shelving in such a way that it didn't have any usable backstock, so the shelves were always too crowded, and then they would go through and do store-initiated returns to clear up space, so they were frequently without books they were supposed to have.

    2 down... The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Let's assume that older books are cheaper to keep in print than newer ones (replenishing backstock requires much smaller and therefore cheaper print runs than publishing a new book from scratch) and that just because Tor can keep pumping out new copies of The Shadow Rising regularly, that doesn't mean they can publish a new book of the same size (which would require a much vaster print run).

    Greasing the Wheel of Time for all it's worth Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Let's assume that older books are cheaper to keep in print than newer ones (replenishing backstock requires much smaller and therefore cheaper print runs than publishing a new book from scratch) and that just because Tor can keep pumping out new copies of The Shadow Rising regularly, that doesn't mean they can publish a new book of the same size (which would require a much vaster print run).

    Archive 2009-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

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