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I suppose “in store” meant “in storage, reserved ready to be brought out at the proper time”, or something of the sort. I expect many users think rather of “in a commercial establishment dedicated to selling”, which is a less-sensical semantic restructuring brought on by the strong meaning drift of the word “store”. The less-sensicality is a good motivation to figure something else out.
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“Install for” could be a version of “installed for”, i.e. already instituted and in place, ready for operation. This would be a meaning very close to the original meaning of “in store for”. Alternatively, it could be “in stall for”, with the image that of an animal waiting in its stall, ready to be loosed for the benefit of the object. Whether or not it is written “install” or “in stall” either construal is possible, though of course the first spelling would encourage the one idea, and the second the other.
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There are thousands of ghits, and, as usual, different permutations. E.g.:

It’s just past 4pm in Los Angeles and the sleepy-eyed Sean Tillmann is still waking up, what does today have in stall for him?

We’ll see what the future has in stall for him and the team. Good luck to you as well,

Read the overview of this site to know what is in stall for you as you begin your learning journey.

you can always try again with other companies and better opportunities might just be in stalled for you.

It was in the past and they are anticipating more on what is installed for them in the next few days.

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-09-07 04:57:17)

I think you have to restall it.

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I had to do an install of a 11i machine which had suffered a find to a wrong rm *.
I have restalled the system.

Following on from ‘restall” there are numerous hits for ‘restallation’ and “destallation” (a lot of these are in German). They make sense both as telescopings of ‘deinstallation’ and ‘reinstallation’ and at the same time as ‘stallation’ with different prefixes.

Good point. There do seem to be ‘instorings’ from Canada, one from a writer called Michel Delville and so on. Or this:

“De fait, les formes du poétique persien semblent informées par une inflexion originale, que seul le mythe permet d’instaurer.

Indeed, the expressions of Saint-John Perse’s poetics seem to be infused with an original tone that only myth can instore”

from the same abstract.

But there are also hits from Oklahoma and India, where calques seem less possible.

By the same token, there’s a program called Destaller which seems to be Spanglish for Deinstaller.

I’m all for ‘restall’ and ‘destall’. In fact I went looking for ‘comes prestalled’ and there it is:

‘The tablet comes prestalled with Windows 7 Starter operating system’

In fact ‘prestalling’ is another context is an old word for selling goods before the market has opened, I discover. From Wigan Court Leet records:

‘Elizabeth Leigh widow for prestalling the market

& Joan the wife of Thomas Mathers the same. John Platt panner & Ralph Neaven shoemaker – assault. Margaret widow of Alexander Nightgale & Isabel wife of William Nightgale – litigation. Gilbert Houlcroft & Jane his wife assaulted Katherine the wife of James Freland. Margaret Wiggan assaulted Grace the wife of Richard Dobson. “Wee Fyne Roger Baron for a troll a gaynes Ann Pymton” John Molyneux of Pemberton yeoman, Richard Humphery & Edmund Atherton of the same yeomen & Gabriel Winstanley – assault with the drawing of blood.’

Amazing thing the internet. I wonder what ‘a troll a gaynes’ somebody was.

I just came across an example of the flounderish “in stall [store] for” in Menno Schilthuizen’s (excellent) book The Loom of Life: Unravelling Ecosystems, on p. 88:

“He tells how, by the mid-1990s, after he had done the maths, a surprise was in stall for him.”

A little digging shows that there are almost no published examples of this substitution prior to the recent boom of unedited subsidy publishing. Either editors have been doing their job or “store -> stall” is a fairly new trend.