How do you use the word "stock" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "stock" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "stock": Improving corporate performances are behind the stock market recovery. Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.

Stock Meaning

/stɒk/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA store or supply.

nounA store or supply., A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

Sentence Examples

Improving corporate performances are behind the stock market recovery.

Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.

We have a fast turnover of stock.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

carry tired standard

Antonyms:

original nonstandard

CEFR Practice Quiz

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

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The store manager needs to order more ____ because the shelves are almost empty after the big sale.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] 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:

"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." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:8–9:

"The cion overruleth the stock quite." — 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

"UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke." — c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

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