stock

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. stem, bole, trunk; race, family; livestock, cattle; [gun] butt; capital; broth; merchandise, goods; raw materials; repertory; informal, belief. See ancestry, store, drama, provision, quantity.

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(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. trite, hackneyed, common; see common 1 , dull 4 .

n.

1. [Goods]

Syn. merchandise, produce, accumulation; see commodity .

2. [Livestock]

Syn. domestic animals, barnyard animals, farm animals; see cow , fowl , hog 1 , horse 1 , sheep .

3. [A stalk]

Syn. stem, plant, trunk; see stalk .

4. [A business share]

Syn. funds, assets, stocks and bonds, property, capital.

• in stock,

Syn. not sold out, stocked, not difficult to get; see available .

• out of stock,

Syn. sold out, sold off, gone, not available; see sold 1 .

• take stock (of),

5. [To take inventory]

Syn. count up, inventory, figure; see count , estimate 1 .

6. [To consider]

Syn. examine, study, review; see consider 1 , think 1 .

• take stock in,

Syn. invest in, purchase, take a chance on; see buy 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. merchandise inventory, products, goods, supply, assortment, variety, array, range, stockpile, reserve, hoard.

2. farm animals livestock, herd, flock, horses, cows, pigs.

3. ancestry lineage, family, bloodline, pedigree, heritage, extraction.

4. investment shares, security, mutual fund. see stock market

5. raw material, main ingredients makings, *fixings, essence, broth, foundation.

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v.

supply, provision, fill, provide, equip, stockpile, furnish, lay in.

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a.

common, in ready supply, in stock, *off the shelf, *run-of-the-mill, plain, *garden variety, everyday, overused, tired, trite, hackneyed.

ANT.: original, fresh, custom-made

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. A supply stored or hidden for future use: backlog, cache, hoard, inventory, nest egg, reserve, reservoir, stockpile, store, treasure. Slang: stash. See COLLECT. 2. A group of people sharing common ancestry: clan, family, house, kindred, lineage, tribe. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See KIN. 3. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed. See KIN, PRECEDE. II verb To have for sale: carry, keep. See KEEP. III adjective Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See GOOD, USUAL.