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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m1)

2) (verb) To keep goods for sale, or fill a place with supplies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m2)

3) A liquid made by boiling meat, bones or vegetables, used for soups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m3)

4) Farm animals (livestock). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m4)

5) stocks: shares in a company that people buy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m5)

6) (history) stocks: a wooden frame that held a person's feet as punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m6)

7) (adjective) Usual or often used: a stock answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m7)

8) A laughing-stock is someone everyone laughs at and makes fun of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#m8)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x1)
- Sorry, that game is out of stock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x2)
- We stocked up on food before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x3)
- Mum made soup with chicken stock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x4)
- The farmer keeps his stock in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x5)
- Let's take stock and see what we have left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x6)
- In old times, people were put in the stocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x7)
- For a half-day he lay there, the laughing-stock of the people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/15/)
- [A vivid example: shops call stolen goods "shrinkage", as if the stock just got smaller by itself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/3/)
- [The stock market is where shares are bought and sold; a share price is the cost of one share.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply/5/)
- [Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.843/)
- [And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.253/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.