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stock noun
Meaning : The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity).
Example :
He owns a controlling share of the company's stock.
Meaning : The merchandise that a shop has on hand.
Example :
They carried a vast inventory of hardware.
They stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory.
Synonyms : inventory
Meaning : 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.
Example :
The rifle had been fitted with a special stock.
Synonyms : gunstock
Meaning : A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation.
Example :
The value of his stocks doubled during the past year.
Synonyms : stock certificate
Meaning : Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered. Used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces.
Example :
She made gravy with a base of beef stock.
Synonyms : broth
Meaning : The reputation and popularity a person has.
Example :
His stock was so high he could have been elected mayor.
Meaning : Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant.
Synonyms : caudex
Meaning : A plant or stem onto which a graft is made. Especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants.
Meaning : Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers.
Synonyms : gillyflower
Meaning : Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia.
Synonyms : malcolm stock
Meaning : Lumber used in the construction of something.
Example :
They will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter.
Meaning : The handle end of some implements or tools.
Example :
He grabbed the cue by the stock.
Meaning : An ornamental white cravat.
Synonyms : neckcloth
Meaning : Any animals kept for use or profit.
Synonyms : farm animal, livestock
stock verb
Meaning : Equip with a stock.
Example :
Stock a rifle.
Meaning : Supply with fish.
Example :
Stock a lake.
Meaning : Supply with livestock.
Example :
Stock a farm.
Meaning : Provide or furnish with a stock of something.
Example :
Stock the larder with meat.
Meaning : Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots.
Example :
The plant sprouted early this year.
Synonyms : sprout
stock adjective
Meaning : Repeated too often. Overfamiliar through overuse.
Example :
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'.
Synonyms : banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
Meaning : Routine.
Example :
A stock answer.
Meaning : Regularly and widely used or sold.
Example :
A standard size.
A stock item.
Synonyms : standard
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