stock

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.
2. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.

   “Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.

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

5. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.
6. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.

   “Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.”

   “[…] 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; […]”

7. (countable, uncountable)A store or supply.

   “The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.”

8. (countable, uncountable)The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

   “His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.”

9. (countable, uncountable)The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

   “When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.”

10. (US, countable, especially, uncountable)The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
11. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

    “After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.”

    “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.”

12. (countable, uncountable)The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
13. (countable, uncountable)The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.

    “They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.”

14. (countable, uncountable)The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.

    “The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.”

15. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
16. (countable, uncountable)The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
17. (countable, uncountable)Stock theater, summer stock theater.
18. (countable, uncountable)The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.

    “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.”

19. (countable, uncountable)The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.

    “The cion overruleth the stock quite.”

20. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.

    “UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.”

    “His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America.”

    “We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]”

21. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
22. (countable, uncountable)Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
23. (countable, uncountable)A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

    “The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.”

24. (countable, uncountable)A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
25. (countable, uncountable)Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
26. (countable, uncountable)Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
27. (countable, uncountable)A bar, stick, or rod.
28. (countable, uncountable)A bar, stick, or rod.

    “The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.”

29. (countable, uncountable)A bar, stick, or rod.
30. (countable, uncountable)A bar, stick, or rod.
31. (countable, uncountable)A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

    “He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.”

    “His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.”

32. (countable, uncountable)A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
33. (countable, uncountable)A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
34. (countable, uncountable)A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
35. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A cover for the legs; a stocking.
36. (countable, uncountable)A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

    “When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,”

    “Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.”

37. (broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

    “Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.”

38. (UK, countable, historical, uncountable)The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
39. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
40. (UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable)Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
41. (countable, uncountable)In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
42. (countable, uncountable)The beater of a fulling mill.

    “[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.”

43. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

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”

   “to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass”

   “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.”

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.
6. (dated)To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

   “stock items”

   “stock sizes”

2. (not-comparable)Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
3. (not-comparable)Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

   “He gave me a stock answer.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
2. (countable, uncountable)A surname.

   “Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.”

3. (countable, diminutive, form-of, uncountable)Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).