misstock

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ stock

Verb

misstock (third-person singular simple present misstocks, present participle misstocking, simple past and past participle misstocked)

1. To stock improperly.
   • 2007 May-June, Major Shawn P. Ward, “Spare Parts Recovery and Storage at Camp Taji”, in Army Logistician, volume 39, number 3, page 43:

     Locations needed to be spot checked as a quality control measure to ensure that parts were not misstocked or miscounted.

   • 2009, Gail Fraser, The Promise of Lumby:

     “Someone misstocked the drug cabinet,” he repeated in a louder voice.

   • 2013, S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, page 90:

     Or perhaps the nurse didn't check the drug name properly, the technician misread the prescription, or someone misstocked the shelves?

   • 2014, Paul Andrews, Swept Away: A Johnstown Flood Novella:

     He knew he'd probably misstocked a few items in his distracted state.