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Overstocking your well only means you'll have little backup on hand when the bite goes off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Overstocking was a big factor in the 1958 recession, but nowadays computers are used to keep inventories in closer balance with orders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily, feuds are not uncommon—not in consequence of "Overstocking of the area," or "keen competition," and like inventions of a mercantile century, but chiefly in consequence of superstition.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz