stock
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: stŏk, IPA(key): /stɒk/
- (US) enPR: stäk, IPA(key): /stɑk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒk
- Homophone: stalk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Old English stocc, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), with modern senses mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”).
Noun
stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks)
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- Bible, Job xiv. 8,9
- Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon
- The scion overruleth the stock quite.
- (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon
- lineage, family, ancestry.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- Bible, Job xiv. 8,9
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
- The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
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- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- 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.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116:
- He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 417:
- His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116:
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- 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.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- (Britain, 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.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (farm or ranch animals): livestock
- (railroad equipment): rolling stock
- (raw material): feedstock
- (paper for printing): card stock
- (plant used in grafting): rootstock, understock
- (axle attached to rudder): rudder stock
- (wide necktie): stock-tie
Hyponyms
- evening stock (Matthiola longipetala)
- hoary stock (Matthiola incana)
- night-scented stock (Matthiola longipetala)
- sad stock (Matthiola fruticulosa)
- sea stock (Matthiola sinuata)
- three-horned stock (Matthiola tricuspidata)
- buffer stock
- capital stock
- certificated stock
- common stock
- corporate stock
- deferred stock
- growth stock
- gunstock
- laughingstock
- laughing stock
- livestock
- penny stock
- preferred stock
- private stock
- rolling stock
- standing stock
- take stock
- tracking stock
- treasury stock
- unissued stock
Derived terms
- gunstock
- laughingstock
- livestock
- rolling-stock
- stockfish
- stockholder
- stockish
- stockist
- stockless
- stockman
- stockpicker
- stockpile
- stocks
- stock-still
- stock-take
- stock-taking
- stocky
- stockyard
Related terms
- bun stock
- stand stock still
- stock answer
- stock certificate
- stock company
- stock cube
- stock exchange
- stock market
- stock option
- stock photo
- stock phrase
- stock split
- stock up
- stock vehicle
Translations
store of goods for sale
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supply of anything ready for use
genus of flowers
farm animals
rolling stock — see rolling stock
finance: capital raised by a company
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part of gun
rudder stock
broth
type of paper
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stack of game cards
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Verb
stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)
- To have on hand for sale.
- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- to stock a warehouse with goods
- to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Translations
have on hand for sale
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Adjective
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (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.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
Translations
normally available for purchase
See also
- DJIA
- foodstock
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
Derived terms
- stockdividend n
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔk/
audio (file)
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- stock, goods in supply
- stock, a reserve (generally)
- Supply of (wild) fish available for commerce, stock
Further reading
- “stock” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Further reading
- “stock” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stokker, from Old Norse stokkr, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Noun
stock c
- a log (trunk of a dead tree)
- a stock (of a gun)
- a package with 10 tins of snus, compare with a carton (of cigarettes)
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