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The correct spelling is stocks.
How to pronounce stocks
noun
IPA: /stɒks/
Say it like: Sto-ks
The correct spelling is stocks. A store or supply. For example: "The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables."
Usage Examples
“The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.”
“to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A store or supply.
- 2.The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- 3.The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- 4.Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- 5.The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
verb
- 1.To have on hand for sale.
- 2.To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- 3.To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- 4.To put in the stocks as punishment.
- 5.To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
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