stock

UK /stɒk/ US /stɒk/
noun 6verb 5adj 3name 2

Definitions

noun

1

A store or supply.

2

A store or supply.

We have a stock of televisions on hand.

I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.

3

A store or supply.

Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

4

A store or supply.

The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.

5

A store or supply.

verb

1

To have on hand for sale.

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.

2

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

to stock a warehouse with goods

to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools

3

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

4

To put in the stocks as punishment.

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

5

To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

adj

1

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

stock items

stock sizes

2

Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

3

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

He gave me a stock answer.

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