stock
/stɑk/ adjective C2- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock. · stock items· stock sizes
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic. · He gave me a stock answer.
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Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
“I’ll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels—chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.
They don’t seem to have taken any very particular stock of him; but still the porter, the clerk, and the chambermaid are all agreed that this about covers the points.
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