<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.</li><li>A quantity of something accumulated, as for future use: a stock of provisions.</li><li>Livestock.</li><li>A stock company: a job in summer stock.</li><li>The outstanding capital of a company or corporation.</li><li>The shares of a particular company or corporation.</li><li>The certificate of ownership of such stock; stock certificate.</li><li>An individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine.</li><li>A long, tapering flag or ensign, as of a monarch or a nation.</li><li>A long candlestick or candelabrum used in a church.</li><li>The main upright part of anything, especially a supporting structure.</li><li>A dull or stupid person.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Kept regularly on hand, as for use or sale; staple; standard: stock articles.</li><li>Of the common or ordinary type; in common use: a stock argument.</li><li>Pertaining to or designating the breeding and raising of livestock: stock farming.</li><li>(of farm animals) Being a fully grown male: a stock hog.</li><li>Informal: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a stock car.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>To furnish with a stock or supply.</li><li>To lay up in store, as for future use.</li><li>To fasten to or provide with a stock, as a rifle, plow, bell, anchor, etc.</li></ul></li><li>(used without object)<ul><li>To lay in a stock of something (often followed by up).</li></ul></li></ul>