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Stock

/stɒk/

A store or supply.

📖 Definitions of "Stock"

noun
  1. 1

    A store or supply.

  2. 2

    The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

  3. 3

    The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.

  4. 4

    Stock theater, summer stock theater.

verb
  1. 1

    To have on hand for sale.

    "The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables."

  2. 2

    To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

    "to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools"

  3. 3

    To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

  4. 4

    To put in the stocks as punishment.

adjective
  1. 1

    Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

    "stock items"

  2. 2

    (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.

  3. 3

    Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

    "He gave me a stock answer"

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