Stock

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English

Noun

Stock (countable and uncountable; plural Stocks)
  1. (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
    We have a stock of televisions on hand.
  2. A supply of anything ready for use.
    Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
  3. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
  4. Farm or ranch animals.
  5. Railroad rolling stock.
  6. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
  7. The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
  8. (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
  9. (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
  10. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
  11. The type of paper used in printing.
    The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
  12. A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
  13. In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
  14. (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

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Verb

Stock (third-person singular simple present Stocks, present participle Stocking, simple past and past participle Stocked)

  1. To have on hand for sale.
    The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.

Adjective

Stock (not comparable)

  1. Normally available for purchase.
    stock items
    stock sizes
  2. Straightforward, plain, very basic
    That band is quite stock
    He gave me a stock answer

Verbs for Stock

(finance)

bear—; bull—; burden with—; certify—; counterfeit—; dabble in—; devaluate—; dispose of—; dump—; inflate—; invest in—; issue—; juggle—; liquidate—; market—; recommend—; renew—; retain—; relinquish —; speculate with—; stabilize—; traffic in —; unload—; —ascends; —booms; —crashes; —dwindles; —fluctuates; —impoverishes; —oscillates; —skyrockets (colloq.) ; — soars ; —toboggans ; —vacillates.

Adjectives for Stock

(general)

chitinous; parent; diversified; rejuvenated; calcareous; gilt-edged; inferior; reputable; revolutionary; rolling; suspicious; peaceful; heterogeneous; degenerate; serious; enormous; linguistic; inclusive; parish; tremendous; replaceable; sapling; surplus; extensive; common; fine; venturesome; pioneer; deficient; pathetic; ranging; selected; wild.

Thesaurus

Animalia, Broadway, ability, abundance, acceptation, accepted, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, accustomed, acquiescence, affiliation, afford, allotment, allowance, amass, amassment, ancestor, ancestry, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, anthrophore, apparentation, appraisal, appraise, appraisement, array, assessable stock, assessed valuation, assessment, assets, assets and liabilities, assortment, assurance, assuredness, authorized capital stock, average, axis, back-number, backlog, banal, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, begetter, beginning, belief, bewhiskered, big end, big game, bigger half, birds, birth, bisque, bit, bite, blood, bloodline, blue chip, blue chip stock, bole, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, branch, breed, breeding, bromidic, brood, broth, brute creation, budget, burgoo, burlesque, butt, byword, byword of reproach, cache, cane, capacity, capital, capital stock, carnival, carpophore, carry, catalog goods, cattle, caudex, caulicle, caulis, certainty, chicken soup, chimney, chowder, chunk, chute, circumstances, circus, clam chowder, clan, class, clear soup, cliched, clothe, collect, collection, commencement, commissariat, commissary, commission, commodities, common, common ancestry, common stock, commonplace, community, conception, confidence, conformable, consanguinity, consomme, consuetudinary, consumer goods, consumer items, contingent, contribute, conventional, convertible preferred stock, cornucopia, corny, corporate stock, country rock, creator, credence, credit, credulity, culm, culture, cumulate, cumulation, cumulative preferred stock, current, current assets, customary, cut, cut-and-dried, cyclical stock, deal, deal in, defensive stock, deferred assets, deferred stock, deme, dependence, deposit, derision, derivation, descent, destiny, devices, dike, direct line, disposable resources, distaff side, dividend, dole, domestic animals, donate, drama, dump, dupe, dynasty, effects, egg drop soup, eighth stock, end, endow, entertainment industry, equal share, equities, equity, equity security, established, estimate, ethnic group, evaluation, everyday, extraction, fade, fair game, faith, familiar, family, fancies, fate, father, fauna, female line, figure of fun, filiation, fill, fill up, find, fish soup, fixed assets, floating stock, folk, fool, footstalk, forebear, forefather, forerunner, founder, frozen assets, fund, funds, funicule, funiculus, furnish, furry creatures, fusty, game, gangue, garner, garner up, gather into barns, gazingstock, gazpacho, genealogy, generally accepted, genesis, gens, give, glamour issue, goat, goods, goods for sale, grass roots, gravy soup, growth stock, guaranteed stock, gumbo, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, half, halver, handle, haulm, have, head, heap, heap up, helping, heritage, hide, high-flier, hoard, hoard up, hold, hope, horses, hot issue, house, household, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, inception, income stock, intangible assets, intangibles, interest, inventory, invest, investment, issued capital stock, jest, jestingstock, job lot, joke, judgment, julienne, keep, keep on hand, kind, kindred, larder, laughingstock, lay in, lay up, leafstalk, legit, legitimate stage, letter stock, line, line of descent, line of goods, lineage, liquid assets, livestock, loaned stock, lode, lodestuff, long stock, look at, lot, mail-order goods, maintain, make available, make provision for, male line, market, mass, material, material assets, material resources, materials, materiel, matriclan, matrix, matzo ball soup, means, measure, meed, merchandise, mess, method, mineral deposit, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mockery, modicum, moiety, monkey, moth-eaten, mulligatawny, munitions, musty, nation, nationality, nest egg, net assets, net worth, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, normal, normative, obtaining, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, offer, old, old hat, order, ordinary, ordinary shares, ore bed, origin, original, origination, ownership, oxen, oxtail soup, pale blue chip, parentage, part, participating preferred stock, patriclan, pay dirt, pedicel, pedigree, peduncle, penny stock, people, percentage, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, phratry, phyle, phylum, piece, pile, pile up, plant kingdom, platitudinous, playland, plenitude, plenty, popular, portion, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, power, precursor, predominating, preference stock, preferred stock, prepare, prescribed, prescriptive, present, prevailing, prevalent, process, procure materials, progenitor, property, proportion, protective stock, provenience, provide, provide for, provisionment, provisions, puree, put up, quantum, quarter stock, quick assets, quota, race, radical, radix, rails, rake-off, range, ration, rations, raw material, received, reception, recourses, recruit, reed, regular, regulation, reliance, reliance on, repertoire, repertory, repertory drama, replenish, reserve, reservoir, resorts, resources, reverse split, review, rick, rise, root, roots, routine, run-of-the-mill, save, save up, seasoned stock, secrete, seed, seedstalk, segment, selection, sell, sept, set, share, share ledger, shares, sheep, shoot, short stock, show biz, show business, side, sideline, size up, slice, small game, small share, society, soup, source, spear, spear side, special situation stock, specialty stock, species, speculative stock, speech community, spindle side, spire, split, square, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stake, stale, stalk, standard, standard stock, staple, staples, steels, stem, stereotyped, stipe, stirps, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, stocks, store, store up, stores, strain, straw, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stuff, subsidize, substances, succession, summer stock, supplies, supply, supply on hand, support, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, sword side, take stock, tangible assets, tangibles, taproot, target, ten-share unit stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, thick soup, thin soup, threadbare, tigella, time-honored, timeworn, tired, tomato soup, totem, toy, trade in, traditional, treasure, treasure up, treasury, treasury stock, tribe, trite, truistic, trunk, trust, turtle soup, unissued capital stock, universal, unoriginal, usual, utilities, utilize, variety, vaudeville, vegetable soup, vein, vendibles, vernacular, vichyssoise, victim, voting stock, wares, warmed-over, ways, ways and means, wealth, well-known, well-worn, wherewith, wherewithal, widespread, wild animals, wildlife, won ton soup, wonted, worn, worn out, worn thin, yield

Pronunciation

Etymology

Old English stoc

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Dutch

Noun

Stock (plural stocks, diminutive Stockje, diminutive plural Stockjes) m.

  1. stock, goods in supply
  2. basic capital
  3. shares (equity)

Etymology

From English stock.

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References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Noun

Stock m. (plural Stocks)

  1. stock, goods in supply

Etymology

From English stock.

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Italian

Noun

Stock

  1. stock, goods in supply, inventory

Etymology

From English stock.


Swedish

Noun

Stock c.

  1. a log (trunk of a dead tree)
  2. a stock (of a gun)

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