stock
/stɑk/ verb C1- To have on hand for sale. · The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply. · to stock a warehouse with goods· to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
He/she/it stocks · Past stocked · Past participle stocked · -ing form stocking
Verb forms
- Base form
- stock
- He/she/it
- stocks
- Past
- stocked
- Past participle
- stocked
- -ing form
- stocking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“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.
Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet.
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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