stock¹ /stok/

1. A fund
2. Capital of a company, divisible into shares, or a unit of ownership of a company, consisting of a group of shares
3. An individual share in a company (US)
4. Supply, store, equipment
5. Raw material, equipment, etc for use or in hand, as in rolling stock, film stock (unused film, etc)
6. A supply of goods, material or equipment for sale
7. The animals kept on a farm
8. Shares of a public debt
9. (in pl) public funds
10. A tally for money paid to the exchequer (obsolete)
11. A repertoire of plays done by a stock company (see below)
12. Repute, estimation (figurative)
13. The undealt part of a pack of cards or set of dominoes
14. Liquor from simmered meat, bones, etc used as a basis for soups, stews, etc
15. A trunk or main stem
16. The perennial part of a herbaceous plant
17. The rooted trunk that receives a graft, rootstock
18. A log
19. A post
20. A block
21. A stump
22. An upright beam
23. The wooden part of a gun
24. A handle
25. A part to which others are attached
26. Any cruciferous garden plant of the genus Matthiola having heavily scented spikes of flowers (see also Virginia stock under Virginia)
27. Anything fixed and solid
28. An intrusive boss (geology)
29. A stocking (archaic or dialect)
30. A stiff band worn as a cravat, often fastened with a buckle at the back
31. (in pl) a device for holding a delinquent by the ankles, and often wrists
32. (in pl) a framework on which a ship is built, keel blocks
33. The horizontal crosspiece of certain old types of anchor set at right angles to the arms
34. A box or trough
35. A fireside ledge (dialect)
36. The original progenitor
37. Source
38. Race
39. Kindred
40. Family

1. To store or supply with (goods, etc)
2. To keep (goods) in stock for sale
3. To put in the stocks
4. To fit (a gun) with a stock
5. To supply or furnish with stock (eg a river with fish)
6. To keep (a cow) unmilked before selling
7. To root up (trees, etc)
8. To stunt the growth of (a plant or animal) (dialect)

1. (of a plant) to send out new shoots
2. To take in or lay up a stock or supply (usu with up)
3. (of a plant or animal) to be stunted in growth (dialect)

1. Concerned with stock or stocks
2. Kept in stock
3. Conventionally used, standard
4. Banal, trite
5. Used for breeding purposes
6. Used or intended for livestock

stockˈer noun

1. An animal kept while being fattened or matured for slaughter (N American)
2. 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

1. 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
2. A cattle-truck (N American)

stock company noun (N American)

1. A joint-stock company
2. A permanent repertory company attached to a theatre

stock cube noun

A cube of compressed meat, fish or vegetable extract used for making stock

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