unstocked

unstocked

(ʌnˈstɒkt)
adj
1. not having stock or stores
2. not having livestock
3. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (of a gun) not having a stock
4. (Nautical Terms) (of a ship or ship's equipment) not having a stock
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The unstocked ruminants in Japan are traditionally fed twice a day during the daytime.
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Its shelves were often UNSTOCKED. Morale was at rocK bottom.
Yet over the ensuing decades, many of Oregon's richest watersheds were clear-cut by big timber corporations and left as unstocked, slash-filled eyesores.
Money can be used to repair damage done, replace broken windows/doors etc, install new CCTV or even to re-stock shelves that would otherwise go unstocked. Applications must be received by tomorrow.
Failure to keep joint forces who are engaged in combat supplied could lead to disaster, not just unstocked shelves.
One worker had tears in her eyes as she surveyed unstocked shelves and said: "I feel absolutely dreadful.
Sometimes only a single collection was available, the rest being out of print or simply unstocked. In a country where poetry matters less than it once did, but considerably more than in the U.S., perhaps they were sold out.