stock meaning
EN[stɒk] [stɑk] [-ɒk]US
WStock
- The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation constitutes the equity stake of its owners. It represents the residual assets of the company that would be due to stockholders after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt.
- ^ "Stock Definition". Investopedia. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
FR stock
- NounPLstocksSUF-ock
- A store or supply.
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- The scion overruleth the stock quite.
- 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.
- 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.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- 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.
- (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- 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 piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- (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.
- (Britain, historical) The part of a tally 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.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- A store or supply.
- VerbSGstocksPRstockingPT, PPstocked
- 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.
- (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.
- To have on hand for sale.
- Adjective
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It is a 2.66-mile trioval with long stretches of speed-building asphalt, which have been made less threatening by restrictor plates that cut the horsepower of the powerful stock car engines.
- The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.
- Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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