Definitions for stocks

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Spelling: [stok]

IPA: /stɒk/

Stocks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in stocks (ckosst).

Definitions for stocks

noun

1. a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
2. a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use:
3. livestock.
4. Theater. a stock company:
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. the trunk or main stem of a tree or other plant, as distinguished from roots and branches.
8. the type from which a group of animals or plants has been derived.
9. a species or other related group of animals or plants.
10. the person from whom a given line of descent is derived; the original progenitor.
11. a line of descent or lineage; a racial or ethnic group.
12. Linguistics. a category consisting of language families that, because of resemblances in grammatical structure and vocabulary, are considered likely to be related by common origin. Compare family (def 14), phylum (def 2).
13. any grouping of related languages.
14. the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
15. Firearms. the wooden or metal piece to which the barrel and mechanism of a rifle are attached. a part of an automatic weapon, as a machine gun, similar in position or function.
16. the trunk or stump of a tree, left standing.
17. a dull or stupid person.
18. something lifeless or senseless.
19. the main upright part of anything, especially a supporting structure.
20. stocks. a former instrument of punishment consisting of a framework with holes for securing the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists, used to expose an offender to public derision. Compare pillory (def 1). a frame in which a horse or other animal is secured in a standing position for shoeing or for a veterinary operation. the frame on which a boat rests while under construction.
21. Nautical. a vertical shaft forming part of a rudder and controlling the rudder's movement. a transverse piece of wood or metal near the ring on some anchors.
22. the metal or wooden body of a carpenter's plane.
23. Metallurgy. material being smelted in a blast furnace. a metal piece to be forged.
24. Printing. a specified quality or kind of paper: the paper for printing a particular job:
25. the raw material from which something is made.
26. Papermaking. stuff (def 15).
27. Cookery. the liquor or broth prepared by boiling meat, fish, chicken, etc., with or without vegetables or seasonings, and used especially as a foundation for soups and sauces.
28. any of several plants belonging to the genus Matthiola, of the mustard family, especially M. incana, having fragrant white, blue, purple, reddish, or yellowish flowers.
29. a rhizome or rootstock.
30. Zoology. a compound organism, as a colony of corals.
31. a collar or a neckcloth fitting like a band around the neck.
32. Cards. the portion of a pack of cards that, in certain games, is not dealt out to the players, but is left on the table, to be drawn from as occasion requires.
33. an adjustable wrench for holding dies for cutting screws.
34. Railroads. rolling stock.
35. Dominoes. boneyard (def 3).
36. Informal. stock car (def 1).
37. Roman Catholic Church. one of a set of three metal containers for holy oil.
38. Geology, Mining. an irregular igneous intrusion, usually an offshoot of a batholith, often mineralized.
39. Archaic. a stocking.
40. Obsolete. the frame of a plow to which the share, handles, etc., are attached.

Idioms

1. in stock, on hand for use or sale:
2. lock, stock, and barrel. lock1 (def 30).
3. on the stocks, under construction, as especially a ship. in progress or preparation:
4. out of stock, lacking a supply of, especially temporarily:
5. take / put stock in, to put confidence in or attach importance to; believe; trust:
6. take stock, to make an inventory of stock on hand. to make an appraisal of resources or prospects:

adjective

1. kept regularly on hand, as for use or sale; staple; standard:
2. having as one's job the care of a concern's goods:
3. of the common or ordinary type; in common use:
4. banal; commonplace:
5. pertaining to or designating the breeding and raising of livestock:
6. Southern U.S. (chiefly Southern Appalachian and South Atlantic States) . (of farm animals) being a fully grown male:
7. of or relating to the stock of a company or corporation:
8. Theater. pertaining to a stock company. appearing together in a repertoire, as a company. forming part of a repertoire, as a play. being a character type fixed by convention, as in the commedia dell'-arte, a harlequinade, minstrel show, or the like.
9. Informal. of, relating to, or characteristic of a stock car.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a stock or supply.
2. to furnish with stock, as a farm with horses, cattle, etc.
3. to lay up in store, as for future use.
4. to fasten to or provide with a stock, as a rifle, plow, bell, anchor, etc.
5. to put in the stocks as a punishment.

verb (used without object)

1. to lay in a stock of something (often followed by up).

Origin of stocks

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

Examples for stocks

Garmer tried to steer me off this line of stocks the other night.

I couldn't have supposed that in my presence people would be stocks and stones!

It reminds me of the days when people were put in stocks in the square.

But when he saw that all his neighbours were also heading to the stores for stocks, he changed his mind.

Investors liquidating Russian stocks have pushed the main stock market index down more than 20 percent since last October.

Commercially, stocks, advertising, publishing, the early radio industry—all that stuff was still downtown.

These losses are doubtless irreparable so far as the stocks in question are concerned.

Smith says he has got something to do with every one of the stocks.

They'll bear the stocks all they can while they're buying up.

One of the more fascinating bits of the book has to do with the proliferation of exchanges on which stocks can be traded.