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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stock/stɒk/

▶noun

• 1 a supply of goods or materials available for sale or use.

• 2 farm animals bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock.

• 3 the capital raised by a company through the issue and subscription of shares.

  ■ (usu. stocks) a portion of this as held by an individual or group as an investment.

  ■ securities issued by the government in fixed units with a fixed rate of interest.

• 4 water in which bones, meat, fish, or vegetables have been slowly simmered.

  ■ the raw material from which a specified commodity can be manufactured.

• 5 a person's ancestry or line of descent.

  ■ a breed, variety, or population of an animal or plant.

• 6 the trunk or woody stem of a tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.

  ■ the perennial part of a herbaceous plant, especially a rhizome.

• 7 a plant cultivated for its fragrant flowers, typically lilac, pink, or white. [Genus Matthiola: several species.]

• 8 (the stocks) [treated as sing. or pl.] historical an instrument of punishment consisting of a wooden structure with holes for securing a person's feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.

• 9 the part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached.

  ■ the crossbar of an anchor.

  ■ the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

• 10 a band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.

  ■ a piece of black material worn under a clerical collar.

• 11 (stocks) a frame used to support a ship or boat when out of water.

▶adjective

• 1 usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.

• 2 constantly recurring; conventional or stereotyped: the stock characters in every cowboy film.

▶verb

• 1 have or keep a stock of.

  ■ provide or fill with a stock of something.

  ■ (stock up) amass stocks of something.

• 2 fit (a rifle or other firearm) with a stock.

– phrases
in (or out of) stock available (or unavailable) for immediate sale or use.
on the stocks in construction or preparation.
put stock in have a specified amount of belief or faith in: I don't put much stock in modern medicine.
take stock make an overall assessment of a particular situation.

– derivatives
stockless adjective.

– origin OE stoc(c) ‘trunk, block of wood, post’, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
preference share (or stock) (N. Amer. preferred share or stock)

▶noun a share which entitles the holder to a fixed dividend whose payment takes priority over that of ordinary share dividends.