stock

«stock» in Mova's school dictionary: A supply of goods kept in a shop or store to sell — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (stock, stocks); verb (stock, stocks, stocked, stocking); adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) A supply of goods kept in a shop or store to sell. tree →

2) (verb) To keep goods for sale, or fill a place with supplies. tree →

3) A liquid made by boiling meat, bones or vegetables, used for soups. tree →

4) Farm animals (livestock). tree →

5) stocks: shares in a company that people buy. tree →

6) (history) stocks: a wooden frame that held a person's feet as punishment. tree →

7) (adjective) Usual or often used: a stock answer. tree →

8) A laughing-stock is someone everyone laughs at and makes fun of. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths problems about shops: "a shop has 50 tins in stock and sells 18". In cooking: chicken stock. In business: stocks and shares. Phrases: in stock, out of stock, stock up, take stock, stock market.

examples

• The shop has 50 tins in stock. tree →
• Sorry, that game is out of stock. tree →
• We stocked up on food before the storm. tree →
• Mum made soup with chicken stock. tree →
• The farmer keeps his stock in the barn. tree →
• Let's take stock and see what we have left. tree →
• In old times, people were put in the stocks. tree →
• For a half-day he lay there, the laughing-stock of the people. tree →

note

Uncountable for goods ("some stock"); "stocks" for shares. In maths, "in stock" is the starting amount: subtract sales, add deliveries. "Out of stock" means zero left.

In the corpora

• But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be a laughing-stock for the weasels.
• A vivid example: shops call stolen goods "shrinkage", as if the stock just got smaller by itself.
• The stock market is where shares are bought and sold; a share price is the cost of one share.
• Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?
• And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.