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English Idioms :: stock
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stock - See: IN STOCK, OUT OF STOCK, TAKE STOCK, TAKE STOCK IN. |
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Traditional English :: stock
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stock - n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a store of goods etc. ready for sale or distribution etc.
2 a supply or quantity of anything for use (lay in winter stocks of fuel; a great stock of information).
3 equipment or raw material for manufacture or trade etc. (rolling-stock; paper stock).
4 a farm animals or equipment. b = FATSTOCK.
5 a the capital of a business company. b shares in this.
6 one's reputation or popularity (his stock is rising).
7 a money lent to a government at fixed interest. b the right to receive such interest.
8 a line of ancestry; family origins (comes of Cornish stock).
9 liquid made by stewing bones, vegetables, fish, etc., as a basis for soup, gravy, sauce, etc.
10 any of various fragrant-flowered cruciferous plants of the genus Matthiola or Malcolmia (orig. stock-gillyflower, so-called because it had a stronger stem than the clove gillyflower).
11 a plant into which a graft is inserted.
12 the main trunk of a tree etc.
13 (in pl.) hist. a timber frame with holes for the feet and occas. the hands and head, in which offenders were locked as a public punishment.
14 US a = stock company. b the repertory of this.
15 a a base or support or handle for an implement or machine. b the crossbar of an anchor.
16 the butt of a rifle etc.
17 a = HEADSTOCK. b = TAILSTOCK.
18 (in pl.) the supports for a ship during building.
19 a band of material worn round the neck esp. in horse-riding or below a clerical collar.
20 hard solid brick pressed in a mould. --adj. 1 kept in stock and so regularly available (stock sizes).
2 perpetually repeated; hackneyed, conventional (a stock answer). --v.tr.
1 have or keep (goods) in stock.
2 a provide (a shop or a farm etc.) with goods, equipment, or livestock. b fill with items needed (shelves well-stocked with books).
3 fit (a gun etc.) with a stock. in stock available immediately for sale etc. on the stocks in construction or preparation. out of stock not immediately available for sale. stock-book a book showing amounts of goods acquired and disposed of. stock-car 1 a specially strengthened production car for use in racing in which collision occurs.
2 US a railway truck for transporting livestock. stock company US a repertory company performing mainly at a particular theatre. stock dove a European wild pigeon, Columba oenas, with a shorter tail and squarer head than a wood pigeon and breeding in tree-trunks. Stock Exchange 1 a place where stocks and shares are bought and sold.
2 the dealers working there. stock-in-trade 1 all the requisites of a trade or profession.
2 a ready supply of characteristic phrases, attitudes, etc. stock market 1 = Stock Exchange.
2 transactions on this. stock-still motionless. stock up 1 provide with or get stocks or supplies.
2 (foll. by with) get in or gather a stock of (food, fuel, etc.). take stock 1 make an inventory of one's stock.
2 (often foll. by of) make a review or estimate of (a situation etc.).
3 (foll. by in) concern oneself with. stocker n. stockless adj. [OE stoc, stocc f. Gmc] |
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Related Words
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historical
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index
information
investment
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Most Often Usage
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on line stock trading
lock stock and two smoking barrels
stock and bonds
stock and bond broker
online stock broker
stock broker
stock building supply
buy stock
stock certificate
stock chart
stock market chart
dividend stock
ny stock exchange
karachi stock exchange
american stock exchange
london stock exchange
singapore stock exchange
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