plural of stock account

plural of stock-picker

plural of stocking filler

plural of stock split

(finance, US) An event wherein a company that has previously issued shares of stock increases the number of shares while reducing the value of each share accordingly.

(firearms) An attachment on a gun used to make it fire repeatedly by using the gun's recoil to pull the trigger, modifying it to function in a similar way to a machine gun.

(nautical) Tackle used in hoisting an anchor on board ship to keep its stock clear of the ship's side.

(transitive, chiefly in the negative) To have faith in; to believe; to give credence to.

(obsolete) laughing stock

Any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.