stock

stock
noun
1》 a supply of goods or materials available for sale or use.
2》 farm animals bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock.
3》 the capital raised by a company through the issue and subscription of shares.
    ↘(usu. stocks) a portion of this as held by an individual or group as an investment.
    ↘securities issued by the government in fixed units with a fixed rate of interest.
4》 water in which bones, meat, fish, or vegetables have been slowly simmered.
    ↘the raw material from which a specified commodity can be manufactured.
5》 a person's ancestry or line of descent.
    ↘a breed, variety, or population of an animal or plant.
6》 the trunk or woody stem of a tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.
    ↘the perennial part of a herbaceous plant, especially a rhizome.
7》 a plant cultivated for its fragrant flowers, typically lilac, pink, or white. [Genus Matthiola: several species.]
8》 (the stocks) [treated as sing. or plural] historical an instrument of punishment consisting of a wooden structure with holes for securing a person's feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.
9》 the part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached.
    ↘the crossbar of an anchor.
    ↘the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
10》 a band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.
    ↘a piece of black material worn under a clerical collar.
11》 (stocks) a frame used to support a ship or boat when out of water.
adjective
1》 usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.
2》 constantly recurring; conventional or stereotyped: the stock characters in every cowboy film.
verb
1》 have or keep a stock of.
    ↘provide or fill with a stock of something.
    ↘(stock up) amass stocks of something.
2》 fit (a rifle or other firearm) with a stock.
Phrases
in (or out of) stock available (or unavailable) for immediate sale or use.
on the stocks in construction or preparation.
put stock in have a specified amount of belief or faith in: I don't put much stock in modern medicine.
take stock make an overall assessment of a particular situation.
Derivatives
stockless adjective
Origin
OE stoc(c) 'trunk, block of wood, post', of Gmc origin.

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