What is the meaning of stock?

noun

• The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity. )
  • usage: "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock"
• The merchandise that a shop has on hand.
  • usage: "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"
  • synonyms: inventory
• 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.
  • usage: "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock"
  • synonyms: gunstock
• A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation.
  • usage: "the value of his stocks doubled during the past year"
  • synonyms: stock certificate
• A supply of something available for future use.
  • usage: "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
  • synonyms: store, fund
• The descendants of one individual.
  • usage: "his entire lineage has been warriors"
  • synonyms: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma
• A special variety of domesticated animals within a species.
  • usage: "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"
  • synonyms: breed, strain
• Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e. G. Soups or sauces.
  • usage: "she made gravy with a base of beef stock"
  • synonyms: broth
• The reputation and popularity a person has.
  • usage: "his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor"
• Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant.
  • synonyms: caudex
• A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants.
• Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers.
  • synonyms: gillyflower
• Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia.
  • synonyms: Malcolm stock
• Lumber used in the construction of something.
  • usage: "they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter"
• The handle end of some implements or tools.
  • usage: "he grabbed the cue by the stock"
• An ornamental white cravat.
  • synonyms: neckcloth
• Any animals kept for use or profit.
  • synonyms: livestock, farm animal

verb

• Have on hand.
  • usage: "Do you carry kerosene heaters"
  • synonyms: carry, stockpile
• Equip with a stock.
  • usage: "stock a rifle"
• Supply with fish.
  • usage: "stock a lake"
• Supply with livestock.
  • usage: "stock a farm"
• Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use.
  • usage: "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low"
  • synonyms: buy in, stock up
• Provide or furnish with a stock of something.
  • usage: "stock the larder with meat"
• Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots.
  • usage: "the plant sprouted early this year"
  • synonyms: sprout

adjective

• Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
  • usage: "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'"
  • synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
• Routine.
  • usage: "a stock answer"
• Regularly and widely used or sold.
  • usage: "a standard size"; "a stock item"
  • synonyms: standard