Definition of stock

"stock" in the noun sense

1. stock

the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity

"he owns a controlling share of the company's stock"

2. stock, inventory

the merchandise that a shop has on hand

"they carried a vast inventory of hardware"

"they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"

3. stock, gunstock

the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun

"the rifle had been fitted with a special stock"

4. stock certificate, stock

a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation

"the value of his stocks doubled during the past year"

5. store, stock, fund

a supply of something available for future use

"he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"

6. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

the descendants of one individual

"his entire lineage has been warriors"

7. breed, strain, stock

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

"he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"

"he created a new strain of sheep"

8. broth, stock

liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces

"she made gravy with a base of beef stock"

9. stock

the reputation and popularity a person has

"his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor"

10. stock, caudex

persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

11. stock

a plant or stem onto which a graft is made especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

12. stock, gillyflower

any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

13. Malcolm stock, stock

any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia

14. stock

lumber used in the construction of something

"they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter"

15. stock

the handle end of some implements or tools

"he grabbed the cue by the stock"

16. neckcloth, stock

an ornamental white cravat

17. livestock, stock, farm animal

any animals kept for use or profit

"stock" in the verb sense

1. stock, carry, stockpile

have on hand

"Do you carry kerosene heaters?"

2. stock

equip with a stock

"stock a rifle"

3. stock

supply with fish

"stock a lake"

4. stock

supply with livestock

"stock a farm"

5. stock, buy in, stock up

amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

"let's stock coffee as long as prices are low"

6. stock

provide or furnish with a stock of something

"stock the larder with meat"

7. sprout, stock

put forth and grow sprouts or shoots

"the plant sprouted early this year"

"stock" in the adjective sense

1. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

repeated too often overfamiliar through overuse

"bromidic sermons"

"his remarks were trite and commonplace"

"hackneyed phrases"

"a stock answer"

"repeating threadbare jokes"

"parroting some timeworn axiom"

"the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

2. stock

routine

"a stock answer"

3. standard, stock

regularly and widely used or sold

"a standard size"

"a stock item"

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Quotations for stock

Love and pride stock Bedlam. [ Proverb ]

It is good grafting on a good stock. [ Proverb ]

Danger and delight grow both upon one stock. [ Proverb ]

Whoso lacks a stock, his gain is not worth a chip. [ Proverb ]

There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad. [ Proverb ]

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]

To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. [ James Hamilton ]

To train the mind shall be the first object, and to stock it, the second. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]

Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. [ Catullus ]

They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. [ Sir Robert Howard ]

With an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stock-brokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. [ Spurgeon ]

Putting thoughts in writing. It resembles a tradesman taking stock, without which he never knows either what he possesses, or in what he is deficient. [ John Hunter ]

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]

If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. [ Solon ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. [ Young ]

Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age - flowers before they have bloomed, and trees ere they begin to bear. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]

stock in Scrabble®

The word stock is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters stock:

STOCK
(48)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word stock

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stock in Words With Friends™

The word stock is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters stock:

STOCK
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word stock

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Words within the letters of stock

2 letter words in stock (3 words)

3 letter words in stock (2 words)

4 letter words in stock (4 words)

5 letter words in stock (1 word)

stock + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence stock

Word Growth involving stock

Shorter words in stock

to

Longer words containing stock

ballstock ballstocks

bedstock bedstocks

bitstock bitstocks

bloodstock bloodstocks

buttstock buttstocks

cardstock cardstocks

deadstock deadstocks

destock destocked

destock destocking

destock destocks

diestock diestocks

drillstock drillstocks

fatstock fatstocks

feedstock feedstocks

floutingstock floutingstocks

footstock footstocks

headstock headstocks

laughingstock laughingstocks

linstock linstocks

lintstock lintstocks

livestock nonlivestock

millstock millstocks

mockingstock mockingstocks

neckstock neckstocks

netherstock netherstocking netherstockings

netherstock netherstocks

nonstock nonstocked

nonstock nonstocking

nonstock nonstocks

oilstock oilstocks

overstock overstocked

overstock overstocking

overstock overstocks

penstock alpenstock alpenstocked

penstock alpenstock alpenstocker alpenstockers

penstock alpenstock alpenstocking

penstock alpenstock alpenstocks

penstock penstocks alpenstocks

restock prestock prestocked

restock prestock prestocking

restock prestock prestocks

restock restocked prestocked

restock restocking prestocking

restock restocks prestocks

rootstock rootstocks

rudderstock rudderstocks

scoffingstock scoffingstocks

screwstock screwstocks

seedstock seedstocks

stockade stockaded

stockade stockades

stockading

stockage stockages

stockbreeder stockbreeders

stockbreeding stockbreedings

stockbroker stockbrokerage stockbrokerages

stockbroker stockbrokers

stockbroking stockbrokings

stockcar stockcars

stocked alpenstocked

stocked destocked

stocked nonstocked

stocked overstocked

stocked restocked prestocked

stocked understocked

stocked unstocked

stocked whipstocked

stocker alpenstocker alpenstockers

stocker stockers alpenstockers

stocker stockers whipstockers

stocker whipstocker whipstockers

stockexchange stockexchanges

stockfish stockfishes

stockholder stockholders

stockholding stockholdings

stockhoop stockhoops

stockhorn stockhorns

stockhorse stockhorses

stockhouse stockhouses

stockier

stockiest

stockily

stockiness

stockinet stockinets

stockinet stockinette stockinettes

stocking alpenstocking

stocking bluestocking bluestockingish unbluestockingish

stocking bluestocking bluestockingism

stocking bluestocking bluestockings

stocking destocking

stocking leatherstocking

stocking netherstocking netherstockings

stocking nonstocking

stocking overstocking

stocking restocking prestocking

stocking silkstocking silkstockings

stocking stockinged unstockinged

stocking stockinger stockingers

stocking stockingless

stocking stockings bluestockings

stocking stockings netherstockings

stocking stockings silkstockings

stocking understocking

stocking unstocking unstockinged

stocking whipstocking

stockish stockishly

stockish stockishness

stockist stockists

stockjobber stockjobbers

stockjobber stockjobbery

stockjobbing stockjobbings

stockkeeper stockkeepers

stockkeeping

stockless

stocklike

stocklist stocklists

stocklock stocklocks

stockmaker stockmakers

stockmaking

stockman

stockmen

stockowner stockowners

stockpile stockpiled

stockpile stockpiler stockpilers

stockpile stockpiles

stockpiling stockpilings

stockpot stockpots

stockproof stockproofed

stockproof stockproofing

stockproof stockproofs

stockpurchase stockpurchases

stockrider stockriders

stockriding

stockroom stockrooms

stockroute stockroutes

stocks ballstocks

stocks bedstocks

stocks bitstocks

stocks bloodstocks

stocks buttstocks

stocks cardstocks

stocks deadstocks

stocks destocks

stocks diestocks

stocks drillstocks

stocks fatstocks

stocks feedstocks

stocks floutingstocks

stocks footstocks

stocks headstocks

stocks laughingstocks

stocks linstocks

stocks lintstocks

stocks millstocks

stocks mockingstocks

stocks neckstocks

stocks netherstocks

stocks nonstocks

stocks oilstocks

stocks overstocks

stocks penstocks alpenstocks

stocks restocks prestocks

stocks rootstocks

stocks rudderstocks

stocks scoffingstocks

stocks screwstocks

stocks seedstocks

stocks superstocks

stocks tailstocks

stocks tipstocks

stocks understocks

stocks unstocks gunstocks

stocks whipstocks

stocktake stocktaker stocktakers

stocktake stocktakes

stocktaking

stockwhip stockwhips

stocky stockyard stockyards

superstock superstocks

tailstock tailstocks

tipstock tipstocks

understock understocked

understock understocking

understock understocks

unstock gunstock gunstocks

unstock unstocked

unstock unstocking unstockinged

unstock unstocks gunstocks

whipstock whipstocked

whipstock whipstocker whipstockers

whipstock whipstocking

whipstock whipstocks