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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Have the best time you can in the out-of-door world and lay in a good stock of health and vitality and ambition to carry you through next year.
I’ll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation.
“I’ll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
There was Holmes’s Alpine-stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him.
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