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stock as in:  the stock market

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    The stock market had dropped another twelve points.  (source)
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    Immediately, the price of the company's stock began sinking like a stone.  (source)
    stock = shares of ownership of a corporation
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    That's why chaos has now become a very broad theory that's used to study everything from the stock market, to rioting crowds, to brain waves during epilepsy.  (source)
    stock = related to shares of ownership of corporations
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    On Wall Street, stock prices were racing toward an all-time high.  (source)
    stock = related to shares of ownership of corporations
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    Never mind, just write down the prices of our stocks as they cross the tape like I'm doing.  (source)
    stocks = shares of ownership of different corporations
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    I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.  (source)
    stock = regarding shares of ownership of corporations
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    "Look, there goes one of our stocks," Turtle replied.  (source)
    stocks = shares of ownership of different corporations
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    Others, the Quackenbushes of this world, could calmly watch the war approach them and jump into it at the last and most advantageous instant, as though buying into the stock market.  (source)
    stock = shares of ownership of corporations
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    "I'm okay," Turtle replied, the final prices of actively traded stocks rumbling in her ear.  (source)
    stocks = shares of ownership of different corporations
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    Playing the stock-market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.  (source)
    stock = regarding shares of ownership of corporations
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    We'll do just that, we'll add WPP to the list of stocks we're going to buy.  (source)
    stocks = shares of ownership of different corporations
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    Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock, then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.  (source)
    stock = shares of ownership of corporations
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    Besides, I didn't pick these stocks.  (source)
    stocks = shares of ownership of different corporations
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common meaning

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    With a dull cracking sound, the stock of the shotgun smashed into the back of his skull.  (source)
    stock = heavy, rear part
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    They now possess the largest privately held stock of this material in the world.  (source)
    stock = inventory
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    The Indian tribe sold tax-free tobacco products, and smokers came from miles away to stock up.  (source)
    stock = put into usable storage
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    Ah got a hankerin' for soppin' up the stock, and my bet is that bread's just fine, mushy like spoonbread.  (source)
    stock = broth used for making soups and sauces
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    He stocks many of the things we need and he treats us like people.†  (source)
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    Give him some, bacon is good for the stock.  (source)
    stock = definition too common or rare to be of interest
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    He stocks the shelves with clean towels, miniature shampoo bottles, and bars of almond-scented soap.†  (source)
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    Also I was anxious about replenishing our small stock of provisions.  (source)
    stock = inventory
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    She stocks Gloria's refrigerator with fruit, milk, and chicken.†  (source)
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    When I tell you to do a thing I want you to obey me at once and not stand stock-still and discourse about it.  (source)
    stock = immovable (like a tree trunk, which was spelled stock in Old English)
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    You'll be clapped in the stocks before you're twenty.†  (source)
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    Yeah, gotta run to the warehouse and stock up.†  (source)
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    She could put me in the stocks, take away my rations, punish me, punish my family.†  (source)
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