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stock

noun as in animals raised on a farm

noun as in investment in company

noun as in estimation, faith

verb as in supply with merchandise

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Example Sentences

The stock closed at $253, more than double the $120 the price at which the company and its bankers initially valued them.

From Quartz

Taking the company public in 2012 at a valuation of about $2 billion, ServiceNow today has a stock market value of almost $90 billion.

From Fortune

As for value stocks, investors are getting the message on that front too.

From Fortune

The worst crash in the company’s stock was a plunge of almost 95%.

From Fortune

Nikola's stock lost 11 percent on Thursday and is down an additional 15 percent in Friday morning trading.

In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.

If his 20s were about traveling and his 30s “about taking stock,” he hopes his 40s will be about “building and expanding.”

The obnoxious meddling journalist is a stock character in fiction.

On Friday, the stock market hit new highs—even as wages were stagnating.

Yes, the stock market is booming but overwhelmingly Americans are unhappy with their economic situation—and for good reason.

Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.

I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.

One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."

Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.

The white ranchmen in the valley were all fencing in their lands; no more free running of stock.

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On this page you'll find 350 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stock, such as: basic, common, dull, established, formal, and normal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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