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Definition of Overstocking
1. overstock [v] - See also: overstock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstocking
Literary usage of Overstocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist by Nancy McCarthy, Celine Dutilly-Diane (2004)
"As highlighted in these histograms, there is evidence that communities are indeed
overstocking, but the median, mean, and distribution of estimated ..."
2. General report of the agricultural state and political circumstances of Scotland by John Sinclair (1814)
"Yet it appears, from the Agricultural Reports of the High- lands and Hebrides,
that the pernicious practice of overstocking almost every farm, ..."
3. Langstroth on the Hive and Honey Bee by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, Charles Dadant (1905)
"CHAPTER XVI PASTURAGE AND overstocking. Pasturage. 698. The quantity of nectar
yielded by different flowers varies considerably; some give so little, ..."
4. An Address to the Members of the Bar of Suffolk, Mass. at Their Stated by William Sullivan (1825)
"Some guide might thus be had in the selection of professions ; and the overstocking
of any one department, might be prevented. ..."
5. Modern Civilization in Some of Its Economic Aspects by William Cunningham (1896)
"overstocking with apprentices, as it was called, was a form of capitalist oppression
of which we hear much in the eighteenth century. ..."
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