Stock definition
An example of stock is 100 shares of Disney Corporation.
An example of stock is what a child would climb to reach a tree's branches.
An example of stock is buying and storing a large amount of toilet paper.
An example of stock is clothing in sizes small, medium and large in most clothing stores.
Interactions between hatchery fish and wild stocks.
A mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.
Comes from farming stock.
A small role in summer stock.
A teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
I put no stock in that statement.
Stock up on canned goods.
A stock item.
A stock answer.
A stock clerk.
Stock farming.
A stock mare.
- A bitstock or brace.
- The butt or handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- The block of a plane, in which the cutting blade is inserted.
- The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, etc. are attached.
- The handle, usually wooden, to which the barrel of a rifle, shotgun, etc. is attached.
- A former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy wooden frame with holes for confining the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists of an offender.
- A frame of timbers supporting a ship during construction.
- A frame in which an animal is held, as for shoeing.
- Raw material.
- Water in which meat, fish, etc. has been boiled, used as a base for soup or gravy.
Heavy stock.
- All the animals, equipment, etc. kept and used on a farm.
- The total amount of goods on hand in a store, etc.; inventory.
- The portion of a deck of cards remaining after the hands have been dealt, available for use later in the hand.
To stock a firearm, plow, etc.
To stock a pond with fish.
Stock sizes.
A stock excuse.
A stock mare.
Stock farming.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- (figuratively) 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 type of paper used in printing.The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
- Undeveloped film; film stock.
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.
That band is quite stock.
He gave me a stock answer.
- To supply (a shop) with merchandise.
- To supply (a farm) with livestock.
- To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.
- Available for sale or use; on hand.
- Not available for sale or use.
- available for sale or use; on hand
- being built
- not immediately available for sale or use; not on hand
- to inventory the amount of stock on hand
- to make an estimate or appraisal, as of available resources, probabilities, etc.
- to have faith in, give credence to, or attribute real significance to
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of stock
- Middle English stok from Old English stocc tree trunk N., sense 18, short for stock-gillyflower (from their woody stems)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Old English stocc, with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. How the senses of "supply" and "raw material" developed from these is unclear, however.
From Wiktionary
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