stock

CEFRB1

/stɒk/

noun

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01
noun
A supply of goods kept for sale or use.
02
noun
Shares showing ownership of part of a company.

Examples

Improving corporate performances are behind the stock market recovery.
Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

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.

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We have a fast turnover of stock.
I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

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The store has a large blank of winter coats in the back room.

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[…] the open land is generally covered by a grass which grows in tussacs, and produces tufts of hard, crisp, pointed blades. Stock will never willingly eat this grass; […]
1881, William Rowntrie Robertson, Reports on the Agricultural Conditions, Capabilities, and Prospects Of The Neilgherry And Coimbatore Districts, page 33
With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
...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.
2005, William Froug, How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island
A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118
Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'd
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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Origin

noun

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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The store has a large blank— of winter coats in the back room.

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noun

The store has a large blank of winter coats in the back room.