/stɒk/
#1845 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
All the goods that a shop or a business has ready to sell.
Word origin
From Old English stocc, a tree trunk or post, which later came to mean a store of goods.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- stocc
Grammar
Gender
Pluralstocks
Examples
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"Stock" is the goods a shop has ready to sell.
Those .
"Out of stock" means the shop has none left.
more .
We "order", "keep", and "count" stock.
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