English Dictionary: stock market | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Stock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the mallard. {Stock exchange}. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. --Wharton. Brande & C. {Stock farmer}, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock. {Stock gillyflower} (Bot.), the common stock. See {Stock}, n., 18. {Stock gold}, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. {Stock in trade}, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. --Simmonds. {Stock list}, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. {Stock lock}, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door. {Stock market}. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock. {Stock pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stockdove}. {Stock purse}. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.] {Stock shave}, a tool used by blockmakers. {Stock station}, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] --W. Howitt. {Stock tackle} (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. --Totten. {Stock taking}, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically. {Tail stock}. See {Tailstock}. {To have something on the stock}, to be at work at something. {To take stock}, to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. --Dickens. {To take stock in}. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang] {To take stock of}, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.] At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. --Leslie Stephen. Syn: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision. |