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- [stok]
- /stɒk/
- /stɒk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stok]
- /stɒk/
Definitions of stock word
- noun stock a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory. 1
- noun stock a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use: a stock of provisions. 1
- noun stock livestock. 1
- noun stock Theater. a stock company: a job in summer stock. 1
- noun stock Finance. the outstanding capital of a company or corporation. the shares of a particular company or corporation. the certificate of ownership of such stock; stock certificate. (formerly) a tally or stick used in transactions between a debtor and a creditor. 1
- noun stock Horticulture. Also called understock. in grafting, a stem in which the bud or scion is inserted. a stem, tree, or plant that furnishes slips or cuttings; stock plant. 1
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Origin of stock
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English stoc(c) stump, stake, post, log; cognate with German Stock, Old Norse stokkr tree-trunk; (v.) derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Stock
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
stock popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stock usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stock
noun stock
- a lot — lot (def 14).
- accoutrement — Accoutrements are all the things you have with you when you travel or when you take part in a particular activity.
- accoutrements — all the things you have with you when you travel or take part in a particular activity, such as clothing and equipment
- accumulation — An accumulation of something is a large number of things which have been collected together or acquired over a period of time.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
verb stock
- apparelled — clothing, especially outerwear; garments; attire; raiment.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- binning — a box or enclosed place for storing grain, coal, or the like.
- deal in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
adj stock
- archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- cliched — If you describe something as clichéd, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
adjective stock
- everyday — Happening or used every day; daily.
- longwinded — Alternative spelling of long-winded.
- noplace — nowhere.
- nowhere — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
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