stock
/stɔk/
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Definition
Noun:
- A supply of goods or materials available for sale or use: The total amount of merchandise a business holds.
- The capital raised by a company through issuing shares: The shares representing ownership in a corporation.
- The animals kept on a farm; livestock: Animals bred and raised for profit.
- The liquid produced by simmering meat, bones, or vegetables: Used as a base for soups, sauces, and gravies.
- A person's ancestry or lineage: Family or ethnic background.
- The handle or butt of a firearm, tool, or implement: The part held or providing support.
- A type of plant used for grafting: The root or stem onto which a graft is attached.
Verb:
- To supply or furnish with goods or livestock: To provide a store or farm with items or animals.
- To keep a supply of goods for sale: To have items available in inventory.
- To accumulate for future use: To amass and store a reserve.
Adjective:
- Regularly available or standard: A common or typical item kept in supply.
- Commonplace or overused: Lacking originality; trite or hackneyed.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- The store has a large stock of winter coats.
- He invested in technology stock.
- The farmer's stock includes cattle and sheep.
- Add two cups of chicken stock to the soup.
- She comes from sturdy farming stock.
Verb:
- We need to stock the shelves before the sale.
- Does this supermarket stock organic produce?
- They decided to stock up on canned food for the emergency.
Adjective:
- That is a stock size, available in most stores.
- The politician gave a stock answer to the difficult question.
Advanced Usage
"In stock": Available for immediate sale or use from current inventory.
- I'm sorry, but that model is not in stock at the moment.
"Out of stock": Not currently available in inventory.
- The popular toy is out of stock until next month.
"Take stock (of)": To carefully assess or review a situation.
- After the project failed, the team took stock of what went wrong.
"Stock and trade": The typical goods or activities of a business or person.
- Persuasion and charm are a politician's stock and trade.
Variants and Related Words
- Stockist (n): A retailer that stocks goods from a particular manufacturer.
- Stockpile (n/v): A large accumulated stock of goods or materials; to accumulate such a stock.
- Stocky (adj): Having a solid, sturdy, and often short build.
- Stocktaking (n): The process of counting and valuing inventory.
Synonyms
- Noun: Inventory, supply, reserve, shares, livestock, broth, lineage, handle.
- Verb: Supply, provision, furnish, carry, store, accumulate.
- Adjective: Standard, regular, routine, commonplace, hackneyed, trite.
Related Phrasal Verbs
Stock up (on): To obtain a large supply of something.
- We should stock up on firewood before the storm arrives.
Stock with: To fill or supply something with items.
- The library was stocked with new books.
Related Idioms
Lock, stock, and barrel: Including everything; completely.
- They sold the business, lock, stock, and barrel.
A laughing stock: Someone or something that is ridiculed by many people.
- His outdated ideas made him a laughing stock at the conference.
Stock phrase: A phrase that is used very often and has become unoriginal.
- The manager relied on stock phrases instead of giving a genuine response.
Adjective
- regularly and widely used or sold
- a standard size
- a stock item
- routine
- a stock answer
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- bromidic sermons
- his remarks were trite and commonplace
- hackneyed phrases
- a stock answer
- repeating threadbare jokes
- parroting some timeworn axiom
- the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
Verb
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- the plant sprouted early this year
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- stock the larder with meat
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
- supply with livestock
- stock a farm
- supply with fish
- stock a lake
- equip with a stock
- stock a rifle
- have on hand
- Do you carry kerosene heaters?
Noun
- any animals kept for use or profit
- an ornamental white cravat
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- he grabbed the cue by the stock
- lumber used in the construction of something
- they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- she made gravy with a base of beef stock
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
- he created a new strain of sheep
- the descendants of one individual
- his entire lineage has been warriors
- a supply of something available for future use
- he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the value of his stocks doubled during the past year
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- the rifle had been fitted with a special stock
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- they carried a vast inventory of hardware
- they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- he owns a controlling share of the company's stock