Stock vs. Store: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Stock refers to the inventory or goods available for sale, whereas a store is a physical location where these goods are sold.
Key Differences
Stock primarily refers to the goods and merchandise held by a business for the purpose of resale, while a store is the physical retail space where these items are displayed and sold to consumers. Stock encompasses the variety of items available for purchase, whereas a store is the environment where customers can browse and buy these items.
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Managing stock involves inventory control, ensuring there is an adequate supply of goods, whereas managing a store includes maintaining the physical space, customer service, and sales operations. Effective stock management ensures products are available when needed, while effective store management creates a welcoming and efficient shopping experience.
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Stock can fluctuate based on demand, sales, and supply chain factors, while a store's physical presence is more constant, though its layout and design may change. Changes in stock levels reflect business activity and market trends, whereas changes in a store often aim to enhance customer experience and sales efficiency.
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The value of stock is a direct component of a business's assets, influencing its financial health, whereas a store contributes to the business's brand image and customer engagement. Stock represents a financial investment for a business, while a store represents the physical and brand presence in the market.
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In e-commerce, stock still plays a critical role, while the concept of a store shifts to a virtual or online presence. Even in online retail, managing stock is crucial to fulfill orders, while the online store serves as the digital interface for customers.
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Comparison Chart
Definition
Goods or merchandise available for sale.
A physical or virtual place where goods are sold.
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Management Focus
Inventory control and supply management.
Physical space, customer service, and sales operations.
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Fluctuation
Varied based on demand and supply.
Physical presence is constant, though layout/design can change.
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Business Role
Direct impact on financial health.
Contributes to brand image and customer experience.
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E-commerce Context
Remains crucial for order fulfillment.
Transforms into a digital interface or online platform.
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Stock and Store Definitions
Stock
The inventory of goods held for sale.
The store replenished its stock of popular items.
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A place where goods are sold to the public.
The new store downtown offers a variety of organic products.
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Stock
A liquid made by boiling bones and meat, used as a base for soups.
She prepared a rich chicken stock for the soup.
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Store
To put or keep things in a special place for use in the future.
We store seasonal decorations in the attic.
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Stock
The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.
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A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.
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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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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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Stock
The stock issued by a particular company
A mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.
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Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.
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(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
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A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.
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Store
(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
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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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A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
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Store
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.
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Store
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
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Store
To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
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Store
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.
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Store
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
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Store
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
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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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Store
Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
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Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
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Store
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
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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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Store
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
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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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To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
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Store
A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
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Store
A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
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Stock
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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An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
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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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Stock
A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.
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Store
Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
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Stock
The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.
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Store
Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some
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Store
A large stock or supply of something.
He keeps a store of emergency supplies in his basement.
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Store
A business establishment selling items.
The convenience store is open 24/7.
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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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Store
The act of saving or putting away for future use.
She stores her family's photo albums in a safe place.
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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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(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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(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.
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Personal reputation or status
A teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
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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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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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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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Stock
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
The supply of a particular item available for sale.
The stock of winter coats was nearly sold out.
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Shares representing ownership in a corporation.
He invested in stock of a leading tech company.
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The handle of a gun or rifle.
The rifle's stock was made of polished wood.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Does a store always mean a physical location?
Not always; it can also refer to an online platform.
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Do stores only sell physical products?
Mostly, but some offer services as well.
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How do stores attract customers?
Through location, layout, marketing, and customer service.
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Do all businesses have stock?
Most do, except purely service-based businesses.
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What's the difference between a store and a shop?
Generally the same, but "store" is more commonly used in American English.
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How often is stock replenished?
Depending on sales, demand, and supply chain efficiency.
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How does store layout affect sales?
It influences customer flow and product visibility.
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What is a flagship store?
The lead store of a retail brand, often in a prominent location.
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