stock
Meanings
noun
- A store or supply.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- 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.
- 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 of a company on the stock market.
- A share in a company.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
verb
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
adj
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- 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.
noun
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
name
- A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
- A surname.
- Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikanąder. Proto-Germanic *stukkaz Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are 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”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
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