Stock Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Stock? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivations, Example sentences, Related sentences, Words starting with Stock, Words ending with Stock, How to pronounce and more...

Word: Stock

How to pronounce: stɒk

Noun

Definitions:

1. The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.

Example sentences: "The store has a very low turnover of stock"

2. The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares.

Example sentences: "Between 1982 and 1986 the value of the company's stock rose by 86%"

3. Liquid made by cooking bones, meat, fish, or vegetables slowly in water, used as a basis for the preparation of soup, gravy, or sauces.

Example sentences: "A pint of chicken stock"

4. A person's ancestry or line of descent.

Example sentences: "Her mother was of French stock"

5. The trunk or woody stem of a living tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.

Example sentences: "Many of the modern roses in commerce today are grafted onto these stocks."

6. A herbaceous European plant that is widely cultivated for its fragrant flowers, which are typically lilac, pink, or white.

Example sentences: "To prolong bloom time on pansies, stock, sweet alyssum, snapdragons and other cool-weather plants, clip off flowers as they fade."

7. An instrument of punishment consisting of an adjustable wooden structure with holes for securing a person's feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.

Example sentences: "Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or in the stocks, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets."

8. The part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached, held against one's shoulder when firing the gun.

Example sentences: "It halved the rifle where the stock joined the barrel, and two fingers from the weasel's right paw fell to the forest floor."

9. A band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.

10. A frame used to support a ship or boat out of water, especially when under construction.

Adjective

Definitions:

1. (of a product or type of product) usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.

Example sentences: "25 percent off stock items"

2. (of a phrase or expression) so regularly used as to be automatic or hackneyed.

Example sentences: "“Two weeks” was the stock reply"

Transitive verb

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