The Collaborative International Dictionary
Understock \Un`der*stock"\, v. t.
To supply insufficiently with stock.
--A. Smith.
Wiktionary
n. (context horticulture English) The rootstock onto which the scion is graft#Verb. vb. (context transitive English) To stock with an insufficient amount.
WordNet
v. stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity [ant: overstock]
Usage examples of "understock".
Head public bar, trying that first, and finding a darts board, several benches, low tables, sisal matting and an understocked bar.
She was still a little concerned about overstock in some areas, and what she saw as understock in others.
They were well stocked with gorp, bongs, pipes, vials of amyl nitrate, but understocked on towels, underwear, toothpaste.
They were setting precedents with this incomplete, understocked, experimental, untested supership, and there were no answers yet.
Damon High was woefully understocked, a fact that probably infuriated Mr.
For its great size Drogheda was understocked, which meant the grass lasted just that much longer.
If they were all going to the Nevsky Prospekt stores, she was going the opposite way down to Tauride Park, where the grocery stores, though understocked, were also underpatronized.
Scrooge said the same: While the moneylender was notoriously understocked on scruples, there had been no indication that he was similarly short on marbles.
They were well stocked with gorp, bongs, pipes, vials of amyl nitrate, but understocked on towels, underwear, toothpaste.