stock
/stɑk/ sustantivo B2En español: stock, existencias, inventario, estocaje
- A store or supply.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory. · We have a stock of televisions on hand.· I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use. · Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Railroad rolling stock. · The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock. · Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use. · The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
- The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. · His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
Plural stocks
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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.
As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty.
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