Meaning of dead stock in English

(Definition of dead stock from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of dead stock

dead stock
As well as holidaymakers, the boats carried workers, live and dead stock, and other merchandise to and from the town.
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The (de)fusion of economic and literary value also required such anonymity; such respect for the "dead stock" transforms these novels from literary objects to simply concrete, dead things.
Now it is dead stock.
They are not so silly as to keep a lot of dead stock.
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From 1929 to 1937 the figures show that by far the chief trade at this market has been poultry and dead stock.
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By standardizing on a big scale the question of dead stock, which is one of the reasons for higher distribution costs, does not arise.
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The following were the prices of grain, live and dead stock, grocery, spirits, etc.
There are other insects which do not confine themselves to one or two articles, but make a general and indiscriminate attack upon our dead stock.
We first began upon the dead stock, serving out two ounces to each, and half a pint of beer for the day.
It is wrong for farmers to have to pay £50 a beast or £5 a sheep for the removal of dead stock.
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