Pronunciation Noun
stock
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cards, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Job 14:8–9 ↗:
- Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- (firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116:
- He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 417:
- His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116:
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- 1673, John Milton, “Sonnet XV. On the late Maſſacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occaſions., London: Printed for Tho. Dring […] , OCLC 1050806759 ↗, page 58 ↗:
- When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,
- Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- (farm or ranch animals) livestock
- (railroad equipment) rolling stock
- (raw material) feedstock
- (paper for printing) card stock
- (plant used in grafting) rootstock, understock
- (axle attached to rudder) rudder stock
- (wide necktie) stock-tie
- French: stock
- German: Vorrat
- Italian: partita, giacenza, lotto, quantitativo, approvvigionamento
- Portuguese: estoque
- Russian: ассортиме́нт
- Spanish: stock, existencias
- French: réserve
- German: Vorrat, Fundus
- Italian: stock, partita, riserva
- Portuguese: reserva
- Russian: запа́с
- Spanish: reserva
- French: pioche
- Russian: коло́да
- Spanish: estirpe
- French: matthiole, violier, giroflée des jardins, giroflée quarantaine
- Italian: violacciocca
- French: crosse
- German: Kolben, Gewehrkolben
- Italian: affusto
- Portuguese: coronha
- Russian: прикла́д
- French: jas
- Russian: шток
- Russian: ста́пель
- Russian: га́лстук
- French: souche
stock (stocks, present participle stocking; past and past participle stocked)
- To have on hand for sale.
- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- to stock a warehouse with goods
- to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
- German: vorrätig, verfügbar
- Spanish: disponible, en almacén
stock (plural stocks)
Stock
Proper noun
- A village in Essex, England.
- Surname
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