Meaning

A store or supply..

Definitions by Sense

1. A store or supply.
2. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
3. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
4. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
5. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
6. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
7. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
8. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

Example Sentences

His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.

Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.

When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,

Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.

[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.

The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.

...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.

Word Forms

• stocks
• stocken
• stocking
• stocked

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