Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.
Stock may also refer to:
Places
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Stock, Essex
Stock is a village and civil parish in south Essex, England. It is about south of Chelmsford, the county town. The village is in the borough of Chelmsford and in the parliamentary constituency of Maldon.
The village
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Stock Windmill
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Stock, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, a village
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Stock, Wiltshire, England, a small settlement
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Stock Farm, a northern suburb of Roseau, Dominica
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Stock Island, an island in the lower Florida Keys
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Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, United States
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Stock Township, Noble County, Ohio, United States
People
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Stock (surname) Stock or Stöck is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
* Albert Stock (1897–1969), Welsh international rugby player
* Alec Stock (1917–2001), English football manager
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, a surname
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Stock'' (album), by Akina Nakamori
*Stock, a fictional town in
Eastfarthing, in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
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Raw stock
The original camera negative (OCN) is the film in a traditional film-based movie camera which captures the original image. This is the film from which all other copies will be made. It is known as raw stock prior to exposure.
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, undeveloped motion picture film
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Stock character, a stereotypical fictional character who audiences readily recognize
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Stock footage, film or video footage that can be used in other films
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Stock photography
Stock photography is the supply of photographs which are often licensed for specific uses. The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, ...
, the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses
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Stock sound effect, a prerecorded sound effect created for or contained within a sound effect library
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Summer stock theatre
In American theater, summer-stock theater is a theater that presents stage productions only in the summer. The name combines the season with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes. Summer stock th ...
, American theatre concept
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Summer Stock
In American theater, summer-stock theater is a theater that presents stage productions only in the summer. The name combines the season with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes. Summer stock th ...
'', American film premised on Summer stock theatre
Biology
Animals
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Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock
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Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish
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Foundation stock
Foundation bloodstock or foundation stock refers to animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a breed or of a given bloodline within such. Many modern breeds can be traced to specific, named foundation animals, but a group of animals ma ...
, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...
, animals kept for agricultural purposes
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Stock fish
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage li ...
, a type of dried fish product
People
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Old Stock Americans
Old Stock Americans, Pioneer Stock, or Colonial Stock are Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies of mostly British ancestry who emigrated to British America in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
These Old ...
, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries
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Racial stock
The concept of race as a categorization of anatomically modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') has an extensive history in Europe and the Americas. The contemporary word ''race'' itself is modern; historically it was used in the sense of "nation, ethn ...
, an obsolete term referring to racial groups
Plants
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Stock (flower)
''Matthiola'' () is a genus of flowering plant in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It is named after Italian naturalist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577). The genus contains about 50 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants ...
(''Matthiola''), a genus of flowering plants
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Virginia stock
''Malcolmia maritima'', also known by its common name Virginia stock, is a popular annual garden plant from the family Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering p ...
(''Malcolmia maritima''), a garden plant
Brands and enterprises
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Stock (publishing house)
Stock is a French publisher, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group.
It was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, who published Voltaire an ...
, a French publisher and subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group
*Elliot Stock, a London publisher of the works of, among others,
William Blades
William Blades (5 December 182427 April 1890), English printer and bibliographer, was born at Clapham, London.
Career
In 1840 he was apprenticed to his father's printing business in London, being subsequently taken into partnership. The ...
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Stock Spirits
Stock Spirits Group, which has its origins in a company founded in 1884 in Trieste, Italy, is among the largest alcohol beverage companies in Europe. As of November 2022 Stock Spirits Group was owned by the private equity business, CVC Capital Part ...
, a Polish company established in 1884
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Stock Transportation
National Passenger Services, d/b/a Stock Transportation, is a Canadian school bus operator based in Markham, Ontario. The company provides student transportation and charter services for twenty-eight school districts in Ontario, Nova Scotia a ...
, a Canadian school bus operator
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Stock (supermarket), an Paraguayan supermarket chain
Economics
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Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided
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Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time
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STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading
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Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or household
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Tally stick#Split tally, in ancient financial accounting, the part of a split tally stick used as a receipt in a transaction
Clothing
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Military stock, a leather collar issued to Napoleonic-era soldiers
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Stock tie, a tie worn around the neck of a competitor riding in an equestrian event
Other uses
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Stock (firearms)
A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing mechanism are attache ...
, a part of a gun which interfaces with the shoulder or hand
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Stock (food), a liquid flavoring base for soups and sauces
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Stock (geology)
In geology, a stock is an igneous intrusion that has a surface exposure of less than ,Whittow, John (1984). ''Dictionary of Physical Geography''. London: Penguin, 1984, p. 513. . differing from batholiths only in being smaller. A stock has a di ...
, an igneous rock formation
*Stock, a type of
changeling
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found in folklore throughout Europe. A changeling was believed to be a fairy that had been left in place of a human (typically a child) stolen by other fairi ...
, a mythical creature
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Card stock
Card stock, also called cover stock and pasteboard, is paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing and printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard.
Card stock is often used for business cards, ...
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Cattle catch or stocks, a move in some martial arts and wrestling
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Infant bed
An infant bed (commonly called a cot in British English, and, in American English, a crib, or far less commonly, stock) is a small bed especially for infants and very young children. Infant beds are a historically recent development intended to c ...
, for sleeping babies, rarely called a stock
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Label stock, a carrier for a label
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Rolling stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can ...
, the vehicles that move on a railway
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Stocks, a device for punishment or torture
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Stöckli, sometimes called Stock, a traditional agricultural building in Switzerland and parts of Germany
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Stock (dominoes)
The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but ap ...
, in dominoes, the tiles not picked up at the start which may be drawn later.
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Bar stock
Bar stock, also (colloquially) known as blank, slug or billet, is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products. Bar stock is available in a variety of extrusion shapes and lengths. The most common ...
, a common form of raw purified metal
See also
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Stalk (disambiguation)
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Standing stock (disambiguation)
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Stocker (disambiguation)
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Stocking (disambiguation)
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Stocks (disambiguation)
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Stocks (surname)
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