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S0767100 (stŏk)n.1. A supply accumulated for future use; a store.2. The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.3. a. All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.b. All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.c. A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed: interactions between hatchery fish and wild stocks.4. a. A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.b. The stock issued by a particular company: a mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.c. Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.d. Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.5. The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.6. a. A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.b. A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.7. a. The original progenitor of a family line.b. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock.c. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.d. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.e. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.f. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.g. A group of related languages.h. A group of related families of languages.8. a. The raw material out of which something is made.b. Paper used for printing.9. The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.10. a. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.b. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.c. often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.11. stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.12. Nautical A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.13. The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.14. a. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.b. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.15. A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.16. The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.17. a. A theatrical stock company.b. The repertoire of such a company.c. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.18. Botany Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.19. Games The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.20. Geology A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.21. Zoology A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.22. a. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.b. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.23. a. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.b. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.24. Rolling stock.v. stocked, stock·ing, stocks v.tr.1. To provide or furnish with a stock of something, especially:a. To supply (a shop) with merchandise.b. To supply (a farm) with livestock.c. To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.2. To keep for future sale or use.3. To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.4. Obsolete To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.v.intr.1. To gather and lay in a supply of something: stock up on canned goods.2. To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.adj.1. Kept regularly in stock: a stock item.2. Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine: a stock answer.3. Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise: a stock clerk.4. a. Of or relating to the raising of livestock: stock farming.b. Used for breeding: a stock mare.5. a. Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.b. Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.Idioms: in stock Available for sale or use; on hand. out of stock Not available for sale or use.

[Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, tree trunk. N., sense 18, short for stock-gillyflower (from their woody stems ).]

stock′age n.stock′er n.

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(stɒks) pl n1. (Historical Terms) history an instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy wooden frame with holes in which the feet, hands, or head of an offender were locked2. (Veterinary Science) a frame in which an animal is held while receiving veterinary attention or while being shod3. (Nautical Terms) a frame used to support a boat while under construction4. (Nautical Terms) nautical a vertical post or shaft at the forward edge of a rudder, extended upwards for attachment to the steering controls5. (Nautical Terms) on the stocks in preparation or under construction

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The quantity of supplies and material on hand ready for use. See also operational stocks; theater operational stocks.

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A synonym for shares.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stocks - a frame that supports a boat while it is under constructionframework - a structure supporting or containing somethingplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
	2.	stocks - a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shodframework - a structure supporting or containing somethingplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
	3.	stocks - a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be lockedinstrument of punishment - an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned personplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

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(stok) noun1. (often in plural) a store of goods in a shop, warehouse etc. Buy while stocks last!; The tools you require are in / out of stock (= available / not available).存货2. a supply of something. We bought a large stock of food for the camping trip. 储备品，供应物 3. farm animals. He would like to purchase more (live) stock.牲畜4. (often in plural) money lent to the government or to a business company at a fixed interest. government stock; He has $20,000 in stocks and shares.公债券5. liquid obtained by boiling meat, bones etc and used for making soup etc. （炖肉等的）原汤 6. the handle of a whip, rifle etc. 柄 adjective common; usual. stock sizes of shoes.常备的 verb1. to keep a supply of for sale. Does this shop stock writing-paper? 现货供应，为…备货 2. to supply (a shop, farm etc) with goods, animals etc. He cannot afford to stock his farm. 供给（商店、农场）商品、牲畜等 ˈstockist noun a person who stocks certain goods. These boots can be obtained from your local stockist.存货商stocks noun plural1. the wooden framework upon which a ship is supported when being built, repaired etc. 造船台2. formerly a wooden frame in which a criminal was fastened as a punishment. 枷（古刑具） ˈstockbroker noun a person who buys and sells stocks and shares for others. 证券经纪人stock exchange a place where stocks and shares are bought and sold. 证券交易所stock market a stock exchange, or the dealings on that. 股票市场ˈstockpile noun a supply of goods or materials accumulated eg by a government in case of war or other emergency. 应急（战时）用库存物资 verb to accumulate (a supply of this sort). 大量贮备，积聚 ˌstock-ˈstill adjective, adverb motionless. He stood absolutely stock-still. 站着一动不动的（地） ˈstock-taking noun a regular check of the goods in a shop, warehouse etc. 盘点stock up to accumulate a supply of (something). The boys were stocking up on/with chocolate and lemonade for their walk.为...储备take stock to form an opinion (about a situation etc). Before you decide, give yourself time to take stock (of the situation). 估量（情况）

Stocks

or certificate of stock, a document that attests to the investment of a share of capital or other resources in a joint-stock company, which gives the right to obtain a share of the company’s profit in the form of a dividend. According to bourgeois corporation law and the charters of joint-stock companies, certificates of stocks are issued in even shares of the joint-stock capital and in round sums (for instance $100, $50, $25, $10, $5). According to the mode of disposition, stocks are divided into registered and bearer stocks; the former are usually issued in large nominal amounts and the latter in smaller and sometimes even very small nominal amounts. The size of bearer stocks depends on the policy and ability of the managers of the joint-stock company to circulate stocks at the stock exchange in order to enlist the resources of broad strata of the population. Thus, the law and practice in Britain and America led to the issue of bearer stocks in small and tiny nominal amounts (up to a dollar or a pound sterling). On the other hand, the law and the practice of joint-stock companies in Russia set a lower limit of 100 rubles for stock bonds. In Russia, unlike the West, a limit was set on the number of votes that one stockholder could have at the general meeting of the joint-stock company; this was done to protect the interests of small capitalists and investors. But these legal barriers were easily circumvented by banks and big capitalists who distributed blocks of shares to their employees; the latter were formally stockholders but in fact voted at the command of their superiors at meetings.

Stocks are divided into common and preferred shares according to the rate of earning. Owners of common shares are in fact granted privileges, but owners of preferred shares have legal advantages: they have priority in receiving dividends and in recovering investments (at their nominal value) in the joint-stock company if the company is dissolved—but only after the bond owners are satisfied; the latter always are guaranteed the property of the joint-stock company. Beyond that, corporation law and practice differ from country to country. In West Germany and France dividends on common shares are paid after the dividends on preferred shares are paid in specified amounts; both payments are made at the same percentage rate. The remainder of the sum earmarked for paying dividends is then distributed in equal shares between common and preferred stocks. This procedure is applied with different modifications in various countries. The owners of both types of stocks have equal voting rights at the general meeting. In the joint-stock companies of the USA the priority rights of preferred stocks to the dividend have in practice been reduced to 4–6 percent of the nominal value, and preferred stockholders have been deprived of the right to vote at the general meeting. This makes the preferred stocks almost equal to floated bonds with the difference that the dividends on them are a few percentage points higher but are not guaranteed unless the company’s profits are high enough.

A special type of preferred stocks is the so-called multi-vote stock (1920’s, Germany). This term is clearly inaccurate: the new type of stocks came into circulation when the US monopoly restored the military potential of Germany; these stocks did not confer many votes. On the contrary, the new stocks conferred fewer votes than the old stocks owned by the German magnates of monopoly capital. Thus, the old type of stocks became multivote stocks, as it were, and enabled the German monopolists to prevent their American partners from becoming corporate managers of the joint-stock companies of big industry and the banks.

I. F. GINDIN

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