Select the description which most closely fits the term safety stock.

I believe the answer is: extra inventory of an item carried to protect against variations in demand during lead time

The value of stock is often influenced by the uncertainties that heppneed because of the amount of market supply/demand.
Investors usually buys Safety stocks if  in order mitigate risk of stockouts and prevented a loss of profit.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t