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Definition: Stock |
StockAdjective1. 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. Routine; "a stock answer". 3. Regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item". Noun1. The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to partial ownership; "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock". 2. 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". 3. The merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware". 4. A supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars". 5. Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit. 6. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors". 7. 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". 8. The reputation and popularity a person has; "his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor". 9. A special kind of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new variety of sheep". 10. : lumber used in the construction of something; "they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter". 11. : a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation; "the value of his stocks doubled during the past year". 12. : any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia. 13. : a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants. 14. : any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers. 15. : the handle end of some implements or tools; "he grabbed the cue by the stock". 16. : persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant. 17. : an ornamental white cravat. Verb1. Have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?". 2. Stock up on to keep for future use or sale; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low". 3. Provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), noun. [Anglo-Saxon stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to Dutch stok, German stock, Old High German stoc, Icelandic stokkr, Swedish stock, Danish stok, and Anglo-Saxon stycce a piece; compare to Sanskrit tuj to urge, thrust. Compare to Stokker, Stucco, and Tucka rapier.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The tool that holds the dies in pipe threading and in the threading of bolts, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The merchandise that a business has in stock is known as --. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A paper incorporating a part of the share capital of a business(share, participation certificate, share of a cooperative, dividend-right certificate). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | Any medium of investment in the money market or capital market, e. g. a money-market instrument, a bond or a share. Source: European Union. (references) |
| One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided. It represents the owner's proportion of interest in the company and is issued to him in the form of a stock certificate. In England and Canada, share is generally considered synonymous with the American stock ; a non-divisible fraction of the capital of a company to which are attached various rights defined by statute and by the company's regulations. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| (1) shares of ownership in a corporation. (2) the capital raised by the sale of shares. (3) a certificate that shows ownership of a stated number of shares. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Any domestic animal produced or kept primarily for farm, ranch, or market purposes, including beef and dairy cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and horses. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The number, by head, of animals belonging to the agricultural holding, or in agistment on the holding. The animals need not necessarily be present on the holding at the time of survey(they may for example be on communal grazings or in the course of migration). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | Cylindrically shaped, more or less vertical orebody; the ore may be a vein deposit, a breccia column or a diamond-bearing volcanic breccia. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Area in which surface flow collects in sinks or lakes having no surface outlet either to other streams or to the sea. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | Relatively small globular or columnar-shaped pluton. Like a batholith only smaller. (references) |
Industry | The aqueous suspension of papermaking pulp and other raw materials during the period between the slushing and the formation of a web or a sheet. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The wooden part of a firearm, e. g. a gun stock. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Stock From the verb to stick (to fasten, make firm, fix). Live stock. The fixed capital of a farm. Stock in trade. The fixed capital. The village stocks, in which the feet are stuck or fastened. A gun stock, in which the gun is stuck or made fast. It is on the stocks. It is in hand, but not yet finished. The stocks is the frame in which a ship is placed while building, and so long as it is in hand it is said to be or to lie on the stocks. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Strictly, the materials other than coke in a blast furnace charge; in practice, a synonym for stock, but stock is usually restricted to the burden materials in the furnace, while burden applies to the materials both in and outside the furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The substance or substances of which an object is made or composed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A short piece of bar or billet sufficient to make one forging. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A permanent stock at the surface of the mine of the marketable products of mining, maintained in order to regulate the quantities and even out the characteristics of the products, and also to serve as a reserve and to maintain a balance between production and consumption, together with the transport facilities for supply to and delivery from the stock. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A rarely used term for a chimneylike orebody. Syn:pipe b. An irregular, metalliferous mass in a rock formation, such as a stockof lead ore in limestone. CF:boss. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | STOCK. A good stock; i.e. of impudence. Stock and block; the whole: he has lost stock and block. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Share or stock most commonly refers to a share of ownership in a company. The owners and financial backers of a company may decide to sell the company in order to raise money. However, this usually leads to the loss of control over the company.
Alternatively, by selling shares, they can sell the company, or part of it, to many part-owners. The purchase of one share entitles the owner of that share to literally a share in the ownership of the company, including the right to a fraction of the assets of the company, a fraction of the decision-making power, and potentially a fraction of the profits, which the company may issue as dividends. However, the original owners of the company often still have control of the company, and can use the money paid for the shares to grow the company.
In the common case, where there are thousands of shareholders, it is impractical to have all of them making the daily decisions required in the running of a company. Thus, the shareholders will use their shares as votes in the election of members of the board of directors of the company. Each share constitutes one vote (except in a co-operative society where every member gets one vote regardless of the number of shares they hold). Thus, if one shareholder owns more than half the shares, they can out-vote everyone else, and thus have control of the company.
Shares are usually traded on a stock exchange, where people and organisations may buy and sell shares in a wide range of companies. A given company will usually only trade its shares in one market, and it is said to be quoted on that stock exchange.
A stock option is the right to buy stock in the future at a fixed price. Stock options are often part of the package of executive compensation offered to key executives. Some companies extend stock options to all (or nearly all) of their employees. This was especially true during the dot-com boom of the mid- to late- 1990s, in which the major compensation of many employees was in the increase in value of the stock options they held, rather than their wages or salary. This is still the major method of compensation for CEO's.
The theory behind granting stock options to executives and employees of a corporation is that, since their financial fortunes are tied to the stock price of the company, they will be motivated to increase the value of the stock over time.
The first company that issued shares is considered to be the Dutch East India Company, in 1602.
See also: Equity investment
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Share."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A stock character is a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture.Stock characters in the western tradition originate from the theatres of ancient Greece and Rome.
Some examples of stock characters are:
- The Hero
- The Villain, evil personified, be it the Duke of Gloucester in William Shakespeare's Richard III or Prince John in the Robin Hood stories.
- The Damsel in Distress, the young, beautiful, virginal woman who must be rescued from some cruel fate by the Hero, a la Penelope Pitstop.
- The Femme Fatale, La belle dame sans merci, the Black Widow, the beautiful, but evil woman who leads the hero to his doom.
- The Fop: The fop is a highly fashionable aristocrat. He is typically overdressed and his speech is characterized by over-use or misuse of popular phrases (often French phrases) or various forms of hypercorrection. The fop is never intelligent and always talkative. Zorro hid behind the image of the Fop, Don Diego. The Scarlet Pimpernel hid behind the persona of Sir Percy Blakeney.
- The Fool: The fool is a clown or joker who speaks in riddles and puns. Often, the fool is intelligent and witty and reveals key truths about the characters he fools with (Shakespeare's fools, such as the ones in Twelfth Night and King Lear, are well-known examples).
- The Mad Scientist: The insane man of science, who either accidentally or intentionally "meddles with the forces of nature" and causes the trouble which the hero must correct.
- The Revenger: The Revenger is a hot-blooded young man who has had a loved one (ideally a fiance) cruelly murdered and/or raped and seeks his revenge outside the law. (Laertes in Hamlet and Hamlet himself are examples of Revengers.)
- The Sidekick - the Hero's helper, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes. The Sidekick is often a figure of fun, but is trustworthy and sometimes shows surprising resourcefulness and bravery. In whodunnits and secondary literature on detective fiction in general, the Sidekick is often referred to as the Watson -- slightly dumber than the average reader, time and again overlooking decisive clues, occasionally drawing the wrong conclusions (such as Capt. Hastings, a friend of Hercule Poirot's).
- The Tart with a Heart: Outwardly tough and hard, she hides a heart of gold under her hard-bitten exterior.
- The Town Drunk, who serves as a figure of fun, serves as a moral example, or is used as a plot device to disrupt public gatherings.
Related Topics
- Commedia dell'arte
- archetype
- blackface
- stereotype
- Heroines in literature
- antagonist
- melodrama
- plot device
- MacGuffin
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stock character."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| St.Ex. | English | Stock Exchange | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: StockSynonyms: banal (adj), commonplace (adj), hackneyed (adj), shopworn (adj), standard (adj), stock(a) (adj), threadbare (adj), timeworn (adj), tired (adj), trite (adj), well-worn (adj), ancestry (n), blood (n), blood line (n), bloodline (n), breed (n), broth (n), caudex (n), descent (n), farm animal (n), fund (n), gillyflower (n), gunstock (n), inventory (n), line (n), line of descent (n), lineage (n), livestock (n), neckcloth (n), origin (n), parentage (n), pedigree (n), stock certificate (n), store (n), strain (n), variety (n), buy in (v), carry (v), stockpile (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: fill-in (metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm. |
Clothing | Neckerchief, neckcloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal, rabat. |
Consanguinity | Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. |
Fool | Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. |
Greatness | Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency). |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
Materials | Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber. |
Merchandise | Noun: merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade; (store); cargo; (contents). |
Money | Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon. |
Paternity | House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. |
Property | Personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage. |
Provision | Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed. |
Quantity | Armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle. |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dr. Evil, wouldn't it be easier to use your knowledge of the future to play the stock market (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) Suppose the stock market crashes (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan) But that's your stock in trade, isn't it -- a man's weakness (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis) All right, first item: I lost our life savings in the stock market (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Look, Mead, part of my income comes from legitimate businesses, stock market -- (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Lyrics | I’ll sell the stock we’ll spend all the money (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) It won't stop, I won't come down, I keep stock, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead. (He was a lawyer before.) (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Chop shops stock chops. (references; author: unknown) Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Krieg im dritten Stock (1973) Im sechsten Stock (1961) Neues aus dem sechsten Stock (1959) Im sechsten Stock (1959) Fighting Stock (1935) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | THIS IS A STOCK PHOTO. Pictured is a factory spewing smoke into the air. This is meant to show the possible negative effects to humans and to the environment of waste pollutants. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Shown is a male technician taking an x-ray of a female patient. This image was used to demonstrate the myth about exposure to radiation during the x-ray procedure. Stock photo-use for "Once A Year For A Lifetime" only. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Front of New York Stock Exchange. Credit: CDC. |  | Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting. Stock Assessment Workshop on Flounder and Lobster. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Recovering trawl during fish stock assessment surveys on the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries. |  | High school volunteers take donor plants to start a wetland nursery. Wetland nurseries are designed to create a source of native plants to be used in the Tampa Bay estuary. Native species are taken from a donor site, transplanted to nurseries established by local schools and are used in wetland restoration projects. Some nursery plants then become the donor stock for upcoming projects. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Gen. Charles T. Robertson, commander of Air Mobility Command and commander in chief of U.S. Transportation Command, led a group of senior officers from both commands on a visit to the New York Stock Exchange Oct. 20. The purpose of the visit was to examin. |  | Hogs being unloaded into stock yard. Credit: USDA. |
 | These ears of corn demonstrate some of the differences mutations maintained at the Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Volunteers help stock "free" information on public lands in the PLIC's lobby. The Arizona Public Lands Information Center (PLIC) is a partnership between the nonprofit Public Lands Interpretive Association and the Bureau of Land Management. The Center offers one-stop-shopping and up to date information on all of the public lands in Arizona. Located at 222 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004. Phone: 602-417-9300. Credit: Chris Tincher. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "NYSE New York Stock Exchange" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "A shot of the NYSE New York Stock Exchange in New York City's lower Manhattan See these images and more at www.27cm.com." | "Consulting stock.xchng" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A finger pointing to the screen displaying InertiaStock.xchng V3. With a little Photoshop work this image can turn more usefull by selecting the hand and changing what is displayed on the screen. <br> <br>---------------------------- <br&g" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Caleb Colton | Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. |
Charles Dickens | I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within. |
John Mortimer | The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. |
Oscar Wilde | With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. |
Theodore Parker | Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. |
William Wycherley | Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. |
Zimmermann | Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But, on the contrary, the inhabitants think themselves beholden to him, who, by his industry on neglected, and consequently waste land, has increased the stock of corn, which they wanted. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Stock Exchange and Commercial Exchange Contracts. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The stock of which he had broken over the heads of those who were entering |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Beside the house the little stock of used tires and retreaded tires |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I laid in a stock of boiled flesh, of rabbits and fowls, and took with me two vessels, one fined with milk and the other with water |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Stock the pantry and freezer with favorite foods so that you won't need to shop as often. (references) | |
Business | There is no official domestic stock market. (references) | |
Some others are Bauhaus, Stock Market, and Mr. Bricolage. (references) | ||
In the draperies market, there are two ways of handling stock. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Because of government restrictions, a joint stock company is the only feasible incorporation option for publishers. (references) |
Egypt | On June 12, the Public Prosecutor banned publication of news concerning an investigation of financial irregularities at the Cairo Stock Exchange. (references) | |
China | In August the magazine Business and Finance Review exposed a well-connected, Ningxia-based company that illegally had manipulated its stock price and cheated its investors. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Slovakia's stock market is weak. (references) |
Syria | Ethnic Syrians are of Semitic stock. (references) | |
Chad | Cameroon recently established a stock exchange. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Except for the case of the Stock Exchange bombing, no suspects were apprehended by year's end. (references) |
Ukraine | During the year, the Constitutional Court considered two cases in response to petitions initiated by individuals but submitted by the Ombudsman for Human Rights and a joint stock company. (references) | |
Indonesia | Two defendants suspected of involvement in the Jakarta Stock Exchange bombing, which killed 10 persons and injured dozens of others in September 2000, escaped from custody before they could be tried. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The Bahamian Stock Market is now up and running with 15 stocks. (references) |
BRAZIL | As the real has weakened, the stock of debt in terms of local currency has risen. (references) | |
CHINA | The large stock of non-performing loans poses a critical obstacle to financial reform. (references) | |
Trade | Portugal | Banks' shares trade freely on the stock exchange. (references) |
Switzerland | As members of the stock exchange in Zurich, they deal in securities. (references) | |
Burma | Urban retailers stock items explicitly on the prohibited imports list. (references) | |
Travel | El Salvador | Pharmacies stock most medicines. (references) |
Morocco | Companies in Morocco may take the form of stock companies or limited liability companies. (references) | |
Chile | Large-scale business is conducted through local corporations whose shares are quoted on the stock market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | The democratization of the stock market in some respects turned many workers into their own executioner. |
Lawrence Lindsey | Well, I sold my stock in part because I have three kids, and at that point I had an ailing mother-in-law who had just moved in with us. I couldn't afford to have money anywhere but where it was safe. I couldn't take any chances. |
Robert Novak | Senator, as a side issue, President Bush has come under fire for some stock transactions he made as a private citizen long ago. Vice President Cheney under fire for some decisions he may have made as CEO of Halliburton. |
Rush Limbaugh | Bush sells Harken Energy and the stock soars instead of tanking, and they say he's corrupt too. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | More than eight millions of the stock of this bank are held by foreigners. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | On the other hand, the administration is pledged to legislation looking to a proper federal supervision and restriction to prevent excessive issues of bonds and stock by companies owning and operating interstate commerce railroads. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I propose tax changes to encourage people to invest in America's future, and their own, through a plan that gives moderate-income families income tax benefits if they make long-term investments in common stock in American companies. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Stock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.90% of the time. "Stock" is used about 7,334 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.9% | 7,253 | 1,335 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.26% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.16% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,334 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stock | Last name | 4,000 | 3,493 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Australian Stock Exchange Limited | China | China Textile Machinery Stock Limited |
| Russian Federation | Murmanskelektrosvyaz, joint stock company since 1994 | USA | Seven J Stock Farm, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "stock": American Stock Exchange ♦ Anchor stock ♦ authorized capital stock ♦ authorized stock ♦ bank stock ♦ basic stock ♦ basic stock of words ♦ be in stock ♦ beef stock ♦ Bit stock ♦ blood stock ♦ blue chip stock ♦ brompton stock ♦ buffer stock ♦ capital stock ♦ chicken stock ♦ classified stock ♦ common stock ♦ common stock equivalent ♦ consolidated stock ♦ control stock ♦ cumulative preferred stock ♦ cut without stock removal ♦ cutter stock ♦ cutting without stock removal ♦ dead stock ♦ Debenture stock ♦ defensive stock ♦ die stock ♦ Dimension stock ♦ diversified common stock fund ♦ donated stock ♦ employee stock ownership plan ♦ equity stock ♦ fat stock ♦ forming without stock removal ♦ fractional share of stock ♦ fully paid stock ♦ Germ stock ♦ giant stock bean ♦ glamour stock ♦ good and rich stock ♦ Government stock ♦ growing stock ♦ growth stock ♦ hand die stock ♦ hand stock for adjustable dies ♦ have in stock ♦ Head stock ♦ held stock ♦ hot stock ♦ in stock ♦ incentive stock option ♦ industrial stock ♦ introduction on a stock exchange ♦ inventory stock ♦ investment stock ♦ joint stock ♦ joint stock capital ♦ joint stock company ♦ junior stock market ♦ keep in stock ♦ laughing stock ♦ lay in a stock ♦ letter stock ♦ lettered stock ♦ list on the stock exchange ♦ live stock ♦ loan stock ♦ loan stock debenture ♦ lock stock and barrel ♦ lock up stock and barrel ♦ mahon stock ♦ Malcolm stock ♦ manipulation on the stock exchange ♦ match stock ♦ money stock ♦ move stock ♦ N. Y. Stock Exchange ♦ Nasdaq Stock Market ♦ New York Stock Exchange ♦ New York Stock Exchange index ♦ noble stock ♦ nouveau marché stock exchange ♦ of good stock ♦ of peasant stock ♦ ordinary stock ♦ otc stock ♦ out of stock ♦ over the counter stock ♦ paper stock ♦ parallel stock market ♦ parent stock ♦ partly paid stock ♦ penny stock ♦ physical stock ♦ pipe stock ♦ pith stock ♦ preference stock ♦ preferential stock ♦ preferred stock. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stock": stock-adjustment, stock-basket, Stock-blind, stock-bowler, stock-breeders, stock-brokers, stock-broking, stock-building, stock-car, stock-check, stock-checker, stock-checking, stock-control, stock-cube, stock-dove-size, stock-exchange, stock-exchange manoeuvre, stock-farming, stock-feed, stock-flow, stock-forecasting, stock-getter, stock-holding, stock-index, stock-index futures, stock-in-trade, stock-jobbers, stock-keepers, stock-keeping unit, stock-killing, stock-levels, stock-lock, stock-market, stock-marketing, stock-markets, stock-option, stock-outs, stock-ownership, stock-picking, stock-pile, stock-piles, stock-piling, stock-pilling, stock-pot, stock-price, stock-proof, stock-raiding, stock-raising, stock-rearing, stock-removing, stock-rigging, stock-room, stock-still, stock-take, stock-takes, stock-taking, stock-taking sale, stock-trading, stock-whip, stock-yard. | |
Ending with "stock": ex-stock, laughing-stock, re-stock, rolling-stock, root-stock. | |
Containing "stock": frozenpredicate rootedpredicate stock-still, joint-stock bank, joint-stock company, joint-stock corporation, joint-stock-company, live-stock farm, make a laughing-stock of. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "stock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | soj (family, kin, kind, persuasion, relative, shape, sort, species, type), shtyllë (backbone, bankseat, bearing, column, mainstay, pile, pillar, pole, post, staff, stanchion, standard, tower), shartesë (graft), material (carnal, copy, fleshly, material, matter, physical, stuff, worldly), bagëti (beast, cattle, livestock, stock raising), dorezë (butt, crook, glove, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, handle, joystick, knob, tommy bar), familje (clan, family, home, house, household, kind, kinsfolk, lineage, name, people, phratry), fis (clan, good and rich stock, kin, kinsman, name, nation, phratry, relative, rich lord family, tribe), fond (bankroll, fund, reserve), grup gjuhësh të afërt, klan (clan, race, Sept, tribe), asortiment (assortment), lloj (assortment, brand, brood, cast, class, description, form, genre, kidney, kind, nature, persuasion, race, rate, shape, sort, species, stamp, style, type, variety), trung (body, bole, log, lump, opaque, skid, stem, stump, torso, trunk), mbështetje (adhesion, aegis, aliment, alimentation, alimony, backup, foundation, furtherance, pillar, promotion, purchase, recourse, support, sustenance, sustention, tower), natyrë (character, complexion, disposition, habit, kind, make, make up, Mold, mould, nature, |