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▸ noun: (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
▸ noun: A supply of anything ready for use.
▸ noun: Railroad rolling stock.
▸ noun: (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
▸ noun: Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
▸ noun: The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
▸ noun: (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
▸ noun: The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
▸ noun: (especially US) A share in a company.
▸ noun: (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
▸ noun: Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
▸ noun: The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
▸ noun: (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
▸ noun: The type of paper used in printing.
▸ noun: Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
▸ noun: Stock theater, summer stock theater.
▸ noun: The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
▸ noun: (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
▸ noun: (by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.
▸ noun: (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
▸ noun: Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
▸ noun: A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
▸ noun: (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
▸ noun: The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
▸ noun: Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
▸ noun: The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
▸ noun: The tailstock of a lathe.
▸ noun: A bar, stick or rod.
▸ noun: A ski pole.
▸ noun: (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
▸ noun: (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
▸ noun: (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
▸ noun: A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
▸ noun: A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
▸ noun: A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
▸ noun: A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
▸ noun: (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
▸ noun: A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
▸ noun: (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
▸ noun: (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
▸ noun: (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
▸ noun: (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
▸ noun: (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
▸ noun: The beater of a fulling mill.
▸ verb: To have on hand for sale.
▸ verb: To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
▸ verb: To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
▸ verb: To put in the stocks as punishment.
▸ verb: (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
▸ verb: (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
▸ adjective: Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
▸ adjective: (motor 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.
▸ adjective: Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
▸ noun: A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of film stock. [A strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide crystals, used for recording motion pictures.]
Similar:
stockpile,
inventory,
store,
stock certificate,
fund,
buy in,
carry,
descent,
strain,
commonplace,
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Types:
common stock,
preferred stock,
treasury stock,
warrant,
put,
call,
short sale,
long sale,
short squeeze,
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