<B>stock certificate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a transferable certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of a corporation's capital stock. </DL>
<A NAME="stockcompany">
<B>stock company,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theatrical company employed more or less permanently under the same management, usually at one theater but sometimes on tour, to perform many different plays. <DD><B> 2. </B>a company whose capital is divided into shares; joint-stock company or corporation. </DL>
<A NAME="stockdividend">
<B>stock dividend,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a dividend payable in additional shares of the company. <DD><B> 2. </B>any dividend payable in cash to a stockholder. </DL>
<A NAME="stockdove">
<B>stock dove,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wild pigeon of Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="stocker">
<B>stocker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who makes or fits gunstocks. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. and Canada.) a young steer or heifer, bought for butchering but kept until fattened or mature. </DL>
<A NAME="stockexchange">
<B>stock exchange,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place or building where stocks and bonds are bought and sold on an organized basis. <DD><B> 2. </B>an association of brokers and dealers in stocks and bonds. A stock exchange operates in the manner of an auction at a particular place or market according to fixed regulations. </DL>
<A NAME="stockfarm">
<B>stock farm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a farm where livestock is bred and raised for profit. </DL>
<A NAME="stockfish">
<B>stockfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> fish, such as cod, haddock, or hake, preserved by splitting and drying in the air without salt. </DL>
<A NAME="stockholder">
<B>stockholder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who owns stock; holder of a share or shares in a company; shareholder. </DL>
<A NAME="stockholding">
<B>stockholding, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that owns stock. <DD><I>noun </I> the owning of a share or shares in a company. </DL>
<A NAME="stockholmsyndrome">
<B>Stockholm syndrome,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the desire of a hostage to cooperate with his captor and justify his action. <BR> <I>Ex. He ... had worried about the "Stockholm syndrome," the odd phenomenon whereby hostages begin to identify with their captors and even aid the very people who threaten their lives (Reader's Digest).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stockhorse">
<B>stockhorse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian.) a horse used in herding cattle. </DL>
<A NAME="stockinet">
<B>stockinet</B> or <B>stockinette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an elastic, machine-knitted fabric used especially for making underwear. </DL>
<A NAME="stockinettestitch">
<B>stockinette stitch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a stitch used in knitting, where one row is knit and the next row is purled. </DL>
<A NAME="stocking">
<B>stocking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a close-fitting, usually knitted covering of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or other fabric, for the foot and leg. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything suggesting a stocking, such as a patch of color on an animal's leg. <BR> <I>Ex. a chestnut horse with four white stockings.</I> adj. <B>stockingless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stockingcap">
<B>stocking cap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a close-fitting, knitted cap somewhat resembling a long, tapering stocking, with a long, pointed end that falls over the back or shoulder, worn for skiing, sledding, or skating or by children in the winter. </DL>
<A NAME="stockingdoll">
<B>stocking doll,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a doll made of stockings stuffed with cotton, rags, newspaper, or the like. </DL>
<B>stocking feet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the feet covered only with stockings. <BR> <I>Ex. he ... being at least six feet three inches in his stocking feet (Weir Mitchell).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stockingmask">
<B>stocking mask,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nylon stocking pulled over the head or wrapped around the face to conceal identity. <BR> <I>Ex. Three men in stocking masks raided Martins Bank in South Audley Street (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stockintrade">
<B>stock-in-trade, </B>noun, or <B>stock in trade,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the stock of a dealer or company. <BR> <I>Ex. Half its stock-in-trade is glossy paperbacks (Punch).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a workman's tools or materials. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) resources or skills. <BR> <I>Ex. She could and did stage emotional outbursts at will and ... it was part of her stock-in-trade to do so (London Times).</I> </DL>
<B>stockist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a person who keeps a stock of certain goods for sale at retail; merchant; dealer. </DL>
<A NAME="stockjobber">
<B>stockjobber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a stockbroker. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) a member of the stock exchange who deals with other members, as in wholesale amounts, but does not deal with the public. </DL>
<A NAME="stockjobbery">
<B>stockjobbery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the business or practice of a stockjobber. </DL>
<A NAME="stockjobbing">
<B>stockjobbing, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>=stockjobbery.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> that deals in stocks and shares; concerned with stockjobbery. </DL>
<A NAME="stockkeeper">
<B>stockkeeper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person in charge of the stock of a warehouse. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who raises or looks after livestock. </DL>
<A NAME="stockless">
<B>stockless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without a stock. <BR> <I>Ex. a stockless gun, a stockless anchor.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stocklist">
<B>stock list,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a list published daily or periodically in connection with a stock exchange, enumerating stocks dealt in, current prices, actual transactions, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="stockmaker">
<B>stockmaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes gunstocks. </DL>
<A NAME="stockman">
<B>stockman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a man who raises livestock, especially cattle or sheep. <DD><B> b. </B>a man employed to look after livestock, especially cattle or sheep. <DD><B> 2. </B>a man in charge of a stock of materials or goods. </DL>
<A NAME="stockmanship">
<B>stockmanship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work or skill of breeding and raising livestock. </DL>
<A NAME="stockmarket">
<B>stock market,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place where stocks and bonds are bought and sold; stock exchange. <BR> <I>Ex. the New York stock market.</I> (SYN) bourse. <DD><B> 2. </B>the buying and selling in such a place. <DD><B> 3. </B>the trend of prices of stocks and bonds. </DL>
<A NAME="stockoption">
<B>stock option,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an option giving a person, especially an employee or executive, the right to purchase stock from a corporation at a given price and within a given time. </DL>
<A NAME="stockpile">
<B>stockpile, </B>noun, verb, <B>-piled,</B> <B>-piling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a supply of raw materials or essential items, built up and held in reserve for use during time of emergency or shortage. <BR> <I>Ex. the national stockpiles of strategic materials and farm commodities (Arthur Krock).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such a reserve of weapons for warfare, especially atomic weapons. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a supply or reserve of anything. <BR> <I>Ex. Stockpiles of good technical men in some of the aerospace companies (Electronics).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to collect or bring together as a stockpile. <BR> <I>Ex. Food and drinking water were stockpiled, but the supplies ran out (Abigail L. Kuflik).</I> noun <B>stockpiler.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stockpot">
<B>stockpot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large pot in which meat, bones, and vegetables are simmered with water to make stock for soup, sauces, or gravies. <DD><B> 2. </B>any vessel in which a mixture of things is prepared for use by long, slow cooking. </DL>
<A NAME="stockproof">
<B>stockproof, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that will not let livestock through. <BR> <I>Ex. a stockproof fence.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stockraiser">
<B>stock raiser,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who raises livestock. </DL>
<A NAME="stockraising">
<B>stock raising,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the business of raising livestock. </DL>
<A NAME="stockrider">
<B>stock-rider, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia) a mounted stockman. </DL>
<A NAME="stockroom">
<B>stockroom, </B>noun, or <B>stock room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a room where stock is kept, especially one in which reserve stock is kept. <DD><B> 2. </B>a room, especially in a hotel, where salesmen can show their samples and receive orders from retailers and wholesalers. </DL>
<A NAME="stocks">
<B>stocks, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>stock.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stocksaddle">
<B>stock saddle,</B> <B>=Western saddle.</B></DL>
<A NAME="stockshare">
<B>stock-share, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a form of agriculture in which the owner and tenant each get an agreed-on share of the livestock sold. </DL>
<A NAME="stocksplit">
<B>stock split,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the division of the shares of stock of a corporation into a larger number of shares, in which the value of the total shares remains the same but each individual share is less. A 3-for-1 stock split of 100 shares worth $12.00 each, would give the stockholder 300 shares worth $4.00 each. </DL>
<A NAME="stockstill">
<B>stock-still, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> as still as a post or log; motionless. (SYN) stationary, immobile. </DL>
<A NAME="stocktaking">
<B>stocktaking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a periodical examination and inventorying of the stock of goods in a shop, warehouse, or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an accounting or reckoning up of resources, weaknesses, achievements, and failures; appraisal; evaluation. <BR> <I>Ex. a spiritual stocktaking.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stockticker">
<B>stock ticker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a telegraphic instrument that prints stock quotations and other market news automatically; ticker. </DL>
<A NAME="stockwhip">
<B>stockwhip, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a herder's whip, having a short handle and long thong. </DL>
<A NAME="stocky">
<B>stocky, </B>adjective, <B>stockier,</B> <B>stockiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> having a solid or sturdy form or build; thick for its height. <BR> <I>Ex. a stocky building. He is a stocky, roundfaced man.</I> adv. <B>stockily.</B> noun <B>stockiness.</B> </DL>
