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.
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.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Now it is dead stock.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
From 1929 to 1937 the figures show that by far the chief trade at this market has been poultry and dead stock.
By standardizing on a big scale the question of dead stock, which is one of the reasons for higher distribution costs, does not arise.
The following were the prices of grain, live and dead stock, grocery, spirits, etc.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
We first began upon the dead stock, serving out two ounces to each, and half a pint of beer for the day.
From Project Gutenberg
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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