Stock vs Trade - What's the difference?
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A store or supply
# (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
# A supply of anything ready for use.
# 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
# (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
# 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.
# 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
# (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is .
#* Francis Bacon
# 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.
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 417:
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
* Fuller
(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
* Shakespeare
(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.
To have on hand for sale.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
(card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
(racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
Straightforward, ordinary, very basic.
(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
* 1989 , (Bruce Pandolfini), Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps , ISBN 0671656902, "Glossary" section, page 225 [http://books.google.com/books?id=pocVITTr8tMC&pg=PA225&dq=trade]:
* 2009 , Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time , ISBN 9781602396784, page 60 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nQd8MHuaXysC&pg=PA60&dq=trade]:
(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
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(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
(mostly, in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
* James Horsburgh
(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
(uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
* Dryden
(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
* Surrey
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
* Udall
* Spenser
* Massinger
* Shakespeare
To engage in trade
* Arbuthnot
To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
To give (something) in exchange for.
To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
* Shakespeare
As a noun stock
is stick, staff.As a prefix stock
is used to emphasize.As a verb trade is
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English
Noun
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
- 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.
- The scion overruleth the stock quite.
- 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.
- 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.
- All our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
- 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.
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks .
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (farm or ranch animals) livestock * (railroad equipment) rolling stock * (raw material) feedstock * (paper for printing) card stock * (plant used in grafting) rootstock, understock * (axle attached to rudder) rudder stock * (wide necktie) stock-tieDerived terms
* buffer stock * capital stock * certificated stock * common stock * corporate stock * deferred stock * growth stock * gunstock * laughingstock, laughing stock * livestock * penny stock * preferred stock * private stock * rolling stock * stand stock still * standing stock * stock answer * stock certificate * stock company * stock cube * stock exchange * stocfish * stockholder * stockish * stockist * stockless * stockman * stock market * stock option * stock performance * stock phrase * stockpicker * stockpile * stock split * stock-still * stock-take * stock-taking * stock up * stock vehicle, as opposed to custom vehicle * stocks * stocky * stockyard * take stock * tracking stock * treasury stock * unissued stockVerb
(en verb)- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- to stock a warehouse with goods
- to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
- (Shakespeare)
Adjective
(-)- stock items
- stock sizes
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
See also
* DJIA * foodstockAnagrams
* ----trade
English
(wikipedia trade)Noun
- I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
- EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
- When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
- The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
- It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade .
- He learned his trade as an apprentice.
- Even before noon there was considerable trade .
- They rode the trades going west.
- the north-east trade
- Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades .
- Josh picked up some trade last night.
- the house and household goods, his trade of war
- A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
- Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade .
- Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
- the right trade of religion
- There those five sisters had continual trade .
- Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
- Thy sin's not accidental but a trade .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "trade")Derived terms
* antitrade/anti-trade * balance of trade * basket trade * block trade * bullet trade * carbon trade * carriage trade * carry trade * carousel trade * cash and carry trade * coasting trade * countertrade * cross-trade * day trade * fair trade * free trade * horse trade * invisible trade * jack of all trades * motor trade * off-trade * on-trade * out trade * paper trade * rag trade * restraint of trade * rough trade * reverse of trade * slave trade * spot trade * stock-in-trade * terms of trade * trade barrier * trade card * trade deficit * trade dispute * trade fair * trade magazine * trade mark/trademark * trade name * trade newspaper * trade-off * trade route * trade secret * trade show * trade standard * trade surplus * trade term * trade union * trade war * trade wind * trader * tradesman * tradesperson * uptick trade * visible tradeSynonyms
* (the commercial exchange of goods and services) commerce * (the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work) business * (the skilled practice of a practical occupation) craft * (An instance of buying and selling) deal, barter * (the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers) patronageVerb
(trad)- This company trades in precious metal.
- a free port, where nations resorted with their goods and traded
- Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
- How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?