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Stock vs. Store: Know the Difference

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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.
Stock vs. Store

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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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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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

A supply accumulated for future use; a store.
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Store

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
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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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All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.
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Store

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
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All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.
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A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.
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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 great quantity or number; an abundance.
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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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To reserve or put away for future use.
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Stock

The stock issued by a particular company
A mutual fund that invests in technology stocks.
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To fill, supply, or stock.
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Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.
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To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.
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Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.
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(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
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The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.
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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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Stock

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.
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Store

A supply held in storage.
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A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.
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(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 original progenitor of a family line.
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Store

Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
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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 great quantity or number; abundance.
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Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.
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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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The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.
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(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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A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
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Store

Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
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An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.
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Store

Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
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A group of related languages.
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Store

To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
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A group of related families of languages.
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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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Stock

The raw material out of which something is made.
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A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
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Paper used for printing.
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Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
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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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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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Stock

A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.
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Accumulated; hoarded.
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Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
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To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
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Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.
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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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(Nautical) A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.
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A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
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The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.
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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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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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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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Store

A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
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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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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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A theatrical stock company.
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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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Stock

The repertoire of such a company.
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Store

A business establishment selling items.
The convenience store is open 24/7.
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A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center
A small role in summer stock.
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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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(Zoology) A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.
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Personal reputation or status
A teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
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Confidence or credence
I put no stock in that statement.
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A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
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A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
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Rolling stock.
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To supply (a shop) with merchandise.
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To supply (a farm) with livestock.
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To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.
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To keep for future sale or use.
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To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.
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(Obsolete) To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.
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To gather and lay in a supply of something
Stock up on canned goods.
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To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.
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Kept regularly in stock
A stock item.
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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 relating to the raising of livestock
Stock farming.
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Used for breeding
A stock mare.
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Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.
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Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.
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A store or supply.
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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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A supply of anything ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
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Railroad rolling stock.
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A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
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Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
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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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A share in a company.
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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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The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
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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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Ellipsis of film stock
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Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
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Stock theater, summer stock theater.
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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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(horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
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(by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.
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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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The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
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Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
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The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
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The tailstock of a lathe.
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A bar, stick or rod.
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A ski pole.
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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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(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
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A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
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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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A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
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A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
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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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(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
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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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The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
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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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The beater of a fulling mill.
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A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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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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To put in the stocks as punishment.
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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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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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Same as Stock account, below.
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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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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 thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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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 kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
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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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The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
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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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A race or variety in a species.
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In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.
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The beater of a fulling mill.
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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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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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To put in the stocks.
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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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Not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit
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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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Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
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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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Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
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An ornamental white cravat
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Stock

Have on hand;
Do you carry kerosene heaters?
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Stock

Equip with a stock;
Stock a rifle
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Supply with fish;
Stock a lake
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Supply with livestock;
Stock a farm
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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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Routine;
A stock answer
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Regularly and widely used or sold;
A standard size
A stock item
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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

What does stock mean in retail?

Goods available for sale in a business.
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What is a store in commerce?

A place where goods are displayed and sold.
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Does a store always mean a physical location?

Not always; it can also refer to an online platform.
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How is stock managed?

Through inventory control and supply management.
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Can stock refer to investments?

Yes, as in shares of a company.
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Can stock run out?

Yes, if demand exceeds supply.
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Do stores only sell physical products?

Mostly, but some offer services as well.
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What affects stock levels?

Sales trends, supply chain, and demand.
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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 are store operations?

The day-to-day management of a retail space.
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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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What's a stockroom?

A place where a store's inventory is kept.
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How often is stock replenished?

Depending on sales, demand, and supply chain efficiency.
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Is stock important in online retail?

Yes, for fulfilling online orders.
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Can stock include non-physical assets?

In the context of investments, yes.
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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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Can a store be virtual?

Yes, as in online shopping websites.
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What is store branding?

Creating a unique identity and image for a store.
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