stock1 /stok/ noun- A fund
- Capital of a company, divisible into shares, or a unit of ownership of a company, consisting of a group of shares
- An individual share in a company (US)
- Supply, store, equipment
- Raw material, equipment, etc for use or in hand, as in rolling stock, film stock (unused film, etc)
- A supply of goods, material or equipment for sale
- The animals kept on a farm
- Shares of a public debt
- (in pl) public funds
- A tally for money paid to the exchequer (obsolete)
- A repertoire of plays done by a stock company (see below)
- Repute, estimation (figurative)
- The undealt part of a pack of cards or set of dominoes
- Liquor from simmered meat, bones, etc used as a basis for soups, stews, etc
- A trunk or main stem
- The perennial part of a herbaceous plant
- The rooted trunk that receives a graft, rootstock
- A log
- A post
- A block
- A stump
- An upright beam
- The wooden part of a gun
- A handle
- A part to which others are attached
- Any cruciferous garden plant of the genus Matthiola having heavily scented spikes of flowers (see also Virginia stock under Virginia)
- Anything fixed and solid
- An intrusive boss (geology)
- A stocking (archaic or dialect)
- A stiff band worn as a cravat, often fastened with a buckle at the back
- (in pl) a device for holding a delinquent by the ankles, and often wrists
- (in pl) a framework on which a ship is built, keel blocks
- The horizontal crosspiece of certain old types of anchor set at right angles to the arms
- A box or trough
- A fireside ledge (dialect)
- The original progenitor
- Source
- Race
- Kindred
- Family
transitive verb- To store or supply with (goods, etc)
- To keep (goods) in stock for sale
- To put in the stocks
- To fit (a gun) with a stock
- To supply or furnish with stock (eg a river with fish)
- To keep (a cow) unmilked before selling
- To root up (trees, etc)
- To stunt the growth of (a plant or animal) (dialect)
intransitive verb- (of a plant) to send out new shoots
- To take in or lay up a stock or supply (usu with up)
- (of a plant or animal) to be stunted in growth (dialect)
adjective- Concerned with stock or stocks
- Kept in stock
- Conventionally used, standard
- Banal, trite
- Used for breeding purposes
- Used or intended for livestock
ORIGIN: OE stocc a stick; Ger Stock stockˈer noun - An animal kept while being fattened or matured for slaughter (N American)
- A person who stocks or makes stocks
stockˈist noun A person who keeps a commodity in stock stockˈless adjective stock agent noun (Aust and NZ) A dealer in livestock stock appreciation noun (economics) Business profit from increase in the value of goods held in stock stockˈbreeder noun A person who raises livestock stockˈbreeding noun stockˈbroker noun A stock exchange member who buys and sells stocks or shares for clients, having been officially superseded in the British Stock Exchange, on 27 October 1986, by the broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber (stockbroker belt the area outside a city, esp that to the south of London, in which wealthy businessmen live) stockˈbroking noun stock car noun - A specially adapted and strengthened ordinary saloon car used for a type of racing (stock car racing) in which cars are often damaged or destroyed in collisions
- A cattle-truck (N American)
stock company noun (N American) - A joint-stock company
- A permanent repertory company attached to a theatre
stock cube noun A cube of compressed meat, fish or vegetable extract used for making stock stock dove noun A dove (Columba oenas), like a small wood pigeon (so called from its habit of nesting in tree stumps or rabbit burrows, or from the erroneous supposition that it represents the ancestor of the domestic breeds) stock exchange noun - A place for the buying and selling of stocks and shares
- An association of people transacting such business
- (with caps) the institution in London where such business is done
stock farm noun A farm specializing in the rearing of livestock stockˈ-farmer noun A farmer who rears livestock stockˈ-feeder noun A person who fattens livestock stock-gillˈyflower noun An old name for the garden flower, stock stockˈholder noun - Someone who holds stocks in the public funds, or in a company
- A person who owns livestock (Aust)
stockˈhorse noun (Aust) A horse trained for working with sheep and cattle stockˈ-in-trade noun - All the goods a shopkeeper has for sale
- Standard equipment or devices necessary for a particular trade or profession
- A person's basic intellectual and emotional resources (often implying inadequacy or triteness)
stockˈjobber noun - A stock exchange member who deals only with other members (in some special group of securities), this job having been abolished in the British Stock Exchange on 27 October 1986, with the introduction of the job of broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber
- A stockbroker (US)
- An unscrupulous speculator
stockˈjobbery noun stockˈjobbing noun stockˈlist noun A list of stocks and current prices regularly issued stockˈlock noun A lock with wooden case stockˈman noun - A man in charge of livestock (esp Aust)
- A storeman (US)
stock market noun - A stock exchange
- Stock exchange business
stockˈpile noun An accumulated reserve supply (also transitive verb) stockˈpiling noun Accumulating reserves, eg of raw materials stockˈpot noun A pot in which stock for soup is made and kept stockˈpunisht adjective (Shakespeare) Put in the stocks stockˈ-raising noun Breeding of stock stock rider noun (Aust) A herdsman on horseback stockˈroom noun - A storeroom
- A room in a hotel for the display of commercial travellers' wares
stock route noun (Aust and NZ) A right of way for travelling stock stock saddle noun A type of saddle with a high pommel and low curved seat, as orig used by American cowboys stock-stillˈ adjective and adverb Utterly still (as a post or log) stockˈtake noun An act of stocktaking (also intransitive verb) stockˈtaking noun Inventorying and valuation of stock (also figurative) stock whip noun A herdsman's whip with short handle and long lash stockˈyard noun A large yard with pens, stables, etc, where cattle are kept for slaughter, market, etc in (or out of) stock Available (or not available) for sale on the stocks In preparation but unfinished put or take stock in To trust to, attach importance to stockbrokers' Tudor (architecture) Imitation Tudor stocks and stones Inanimate idols take stock (of) - To make an inventory of goods on hand
- To make an estimate of
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