For example they buy at 100 an empty house and they sell after 5 years at 150, like the stock exchange.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Both supermarkets had to be handed over empty of stock, so many items that were not sold were donated to charities.

BBC: Guernsey charities given unsold stock as Checkers shuts

The doctors found that 13 elderly people or 10% of those studied had empty fridges, with women more likely than men to have failed to stock up.

BBC: Fridges 'can indicate illness risk'

This new setup program immediately saw that I had an empty and idle 240GB drive (already formatted as NTFS using Windows 7's stock disc management utility) and allowed me to install Windows 8 there.

ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: a defiantly successful installation