Noun

A store or supply

# (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

We have a stock of televisions on hand.

# A supply of anything ready for use.

Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

# Railroad rolling stock.

# In a card game, a stack of undealt cards made available to the players.

# Farm or ranch animals; livestock.

# The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.

(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

# The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market

When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.

# (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.

# Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.

The raw material from which things are made; feedstock

# The type of paper used in printing.

The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.

# Undeveloped film; film stock

Stock theater, summer stock theater

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

* Bible, Job xiv. 8,9

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

# (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is .

#* Francis Bacon

The scion overruleth the stock quite.

# lineage, family, ancestry

## (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.

Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola .

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached

# The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

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# The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

# The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

# The tailstock of a lathe

A bar, stick or rod

# A ski pole

# (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

# (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

# (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

(uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.

A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.

* 1915 , :

He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock . His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 417:

His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.

A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

* Milton

All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

* Fuller

Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.

(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

* Shakespeare

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks .

(UK, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

(shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

(UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

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Noun

(en noun)

A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

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A bureau, an administrative unit of government.

A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.

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A charge or trust; a function.

*(Bible), (w) xi. 13

*:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.

*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

*:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.

Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.

Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.

*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

*:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.

A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.

(lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I would I could do a good office between you.

*Doctrine and Covenants 25: 5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981

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*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144

*:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.

(lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.

*1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:

*:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .

An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).