Share vs. Stock: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Published on January 21, 2024
A share represents a unit of ownership in a specific company, while stock is a general term referring to ownership in one or more companies.
Key Differences
A share is a specific unit of equity ownership in a single company, representing a fraction of the company's capital. Owning a share makes the holder a shareholder of that particular company. Stock, on the other hand, is a more general term that represents ownership in one or more companies. When someone says they own stock, it means they hold ownership in one or more companies, but it does not specify the company or companies.
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Shares are documented through share certificates, which provide details about the number of shares owned, the company in which they are held, and other relevant information. These certificates are evidence of share ownership. Stock does not necessarily come with such specific documentation, as it can refer to a collection of shares across various companies.
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Shares can come in different types and classes, each with its own set of rights and privileges. For example, there are common shares and preferred shares, each offering different voting rights and dividend priorities. Stock, as a broader term, encompasses all types of shares and does not differentiate between these classes.
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When trading in the stock market, investors buy and sell shares of individual companies. The term stock market is a broader concept that encompasses the trading of securities, which includes shares from various companies. Thus, buying stock can mean acquiring shares from one or multiple companies.
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The value of a share is specific to the company it represents, determined by the company's performance and market conditions. Dividends are paid to shareholders based on the number of shares they own. Stock value, encompassing a range of shares, is influenced by the overall performance of the companies it represents, and dividends can be accrued from different companies depending on the stocks held.
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Definition
A unit of ownership in a specific company.
General term for ownership in one or more companies.
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Documentation
Represented by share certificates detailing ownership in a company.
No specific documentation for individual companies.
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Types and Classes
Different types and classes with varying rights (e.g., common, preferred).
Encompasses all types of shares, no specific class distinction.
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Trading
Traded as specific units in a single company.
Refers to the act of buying or owning shares in various companies.
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Value and Dividends
Value and dividends are specific to the company of the share.
Value and dividends are influenced by overall stock portfolio.
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Share and Stock Definitions
Share
A share represents a shareholder's portion of a company's capital.
Each share gave the investor a small fraction of ownership in the company.
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Stock
Stock is the collective term for shares representing ownership in one or more companies.
She diversified her portfolio by investing in different stocks.
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Share
A share is a unit of stock in a single company, entitling the shareholder to a proportion of its profits.
He received dividends based on the number of shares he owned.
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Stock
Stock refers to all of a company's shares held by investors.
The company's stock rose sharply after the successful product launch.
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A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group
The pirates argued over their shares of the treasure.
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Stock
Stock is a general term for securities that signify an ownership interest in a corporation.
He checked the stock market daily to monitor his investments.
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Share
One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided
Bought 200 shares of the company's stock.
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Stock
The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.
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Share
A unit of ownership in a mutual fund or other investment vehicle
Bought two shares in a mutual fund.
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Share
Shares Chiefly British Stocks
European shares jumped two percent. The fund invests half the money in bonds and half in shares.
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Stock
A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed
Interactions between hatchery fish and wild stocks.
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Share
To accord a share in (something) to another or others
Shared her chocolate bar with a friend.
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Stock
A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.
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Share
To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion
Shared the estate among his heirs.
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Stock
The stock issued by a particular company
A mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.
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Share
To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns
Share a responsibility.
Share a room.
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Stock
Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.
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Share
To hold or have jointly with another or others
She shares my view about the election.
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Share
To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.
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Share
(Computers) To make (a digital file) accessible to other users on a network, as for copying and downloading.
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Share
To allow someone to use or enjoy something that one possesses
Being in daycare taught the child to share.
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Share
To use or enjoy something jointly or in turns
There is only one computer, so we will have to share.
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Stock
The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character
Comes from farming stock.
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Share
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
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Share
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
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Share
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
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Share
(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
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Share
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
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Share
To have or use in common.
To share a shelter with another
They share a language.
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Stock
The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.
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Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
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To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
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Stock
Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.
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Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.
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The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
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The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed.
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Share
A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.
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The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
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Share
Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.
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Stock
The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
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Share
Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.
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Stock
A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.
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The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.
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Share
To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide.
Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
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Share
To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another.
While avarice and rapine share the land.
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Share
To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
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Stock
A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center
A small role in summer stock.
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Share
To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others.
A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father.
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(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.
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Share
Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate;
He bought 100 shares of IBM at the market price
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(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.
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Share
Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;
He wanted his share in cash
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(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.
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The result of parcelling out or sharing;
Death gets more than its share of attention from theologicans
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Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor;
I am proud of my contribution to the team's success
They all did their share of the work
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Stock
Personal reputation or status
A teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
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Share
Have in common;
Our children share a love of music
The two countries share a long border
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Share
A share is an individual unit of equity ownership in a particular company.
She purchased 100 shares of the tech company's stock.
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Share
A share is a financial instrument reflecting ownership in a company's assets and earnings.
His shares in the start-up increased in value as the company grew.
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A share is a piece of a company's capital that investors can buy.
They decided to buy shares in a well-established corporation for stability.
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Stock
Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine
A stock answer.
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Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise
A stock clerk.
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Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.
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(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
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Stock
A supply of anything ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
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The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
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(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
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The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
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(figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
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Stock
Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
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Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
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The type of paper used in printing.
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
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The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
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Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
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A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
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(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
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(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
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(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
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A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
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(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
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A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
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The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
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Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
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To have on hand for sale.
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
To stock a warehouse with goods
To stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
To stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
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To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
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(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
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To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
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Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
Stock items
Stock sizes
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Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
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Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
He gave me a stock answer.
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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Stock
The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
The scion overruleth the stock quite.
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A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
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Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
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The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
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The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
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The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
And stand betwixt them made, when, severally,All told their stock.
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stockFrom Dardanus.
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The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; - so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
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The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
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The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
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Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
Add to that stock which justly we bestow.
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The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
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Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; - called also live stock.
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A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
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That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.
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Stock
The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
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A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
With a linen stock on one leg.
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A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
He shall rest in my stocks.
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Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
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An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
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In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.
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A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; - used in making soup, gravy, etc.
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Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.
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A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
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Stock
To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
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To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
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Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.
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The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);
He owns a controlling share of the company's stock
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Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces;
She made gravy with a base of beef stock
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The merchandise that a shop has on hand;
They carried a vast inventory of hardware
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A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
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The descendants of one individual;
His entire lineage has been warriors
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The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun;
The rifle had been fitted with a special stock
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The reputation and popularity a person has;
His stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
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A special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
He experimented on a particular breed of white rats
He created a new strain of sheep
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Lumber used in the construction of something;
They will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
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A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation;
The value of his stocks doubled during the past year
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A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
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Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
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The handle end of some implements or tools;
He grabbed the cue by the stock
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Stock up on to keep for future use or sale;
Let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
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Provide or furnish with a stock of something;
Stock the larder with meat
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Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;
The plant sprouted early this year
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Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'
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Stock
Stock represents an investment in a company or a claim on its assets and earnings.
The investor's stock holdings included several tech companies.
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Stock
Stock is a type of security that indicates the holder has proportionate ownership in the issuing corporation.
Their stock investment paid off when the company's value increased.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What does stock represent?
Stock represents ownership in one or more companies.
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Can you own shares without owning stock?
No, owning shares means you own stock in a company.
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Are dividends paid on shares or stock?
Dividends are paid based on the number of shares owned.
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Can you trade stock?
Yes, trading stock involves buying and selling shares in companies.
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Does owning stock mean having shares in multiple companies?
Owning stock can mean having shares in one or multiple companies.
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Is owning stock the same as owning a company?
Owning stock means owning a part of a company, not the entire company.
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How are shares valued?
Shares are valued based on the company's performance and market conditions.
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What does it mean to hold stock in a company?
It means you own shares and thus have ownership interest in that company.
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Can stock ownership affect company decisions?
Yes, depending on the number of shares and the type of shares owned.
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Are stocks and shares interchangeable terms?
They are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct meanings.
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Jan 21, 2024
What influences stock prices?
Stock prices are influenced by market trends, company performance, and economic factors.
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Jan 21, 2024
Is it possible to own one share in a company?
Yes, it's possible to own as little as one share in a company.
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Jan 21, 2024
Do all companies offer stock?
Not all companies offer stock; some are privately held and don't issue shares.
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Jan 21, 2024
Are stock values constant?
No, stock values fluctuate based on market performance and company success.
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Jan 21, 2024
What is a share certificate?
A share certificate is a document that certifies ownership of shares in a company.
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Jan 21, 2024
Can stock ownership provide voting rights in a company?
Yes, certain types of stock provide voting rights in company decisions.
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Jan 21, 2024
Can shares lose value?
Yes, shares can lose value if the company underperforms or market conditions are unfavorable.
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Jan 21, 2024
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