Stock (disambiguation)

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Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.

Stock may also refer to:

Places

  • Stock, Essex, England, a village and civil parish
    • Stock Windmill
  • Stock, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, a village
  • Stock, Wiltshire, England, a small settlement
  • Stock Farm, a northern suburb of Roseau, Dominica
  • Stock Island, an island in the lower Florida Keys
  • Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, United States
  • Stock Township, Noble County, Ohio, United States

People

  • Stock (surname), a surname

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Stock (album), by Akina Nakamori
  • Stock, a fictional town in Eastfarthing, in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Raw stock, undeveloped motion picture film
  • Stock character, a stereotypical fictional character who audiences readily recognize
  • Stock footage, film or video footage that can be used in other films
  • Stock photography, the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses
  • Stock sound effect, a prerecorded sound effect created for or contained within a sound effect library
  • Summer stock theatre, American theatre concept
  • Summer Stock, American film premised on Summer stock theatre

Biology

Animals

  • Stock (cage), a stall or cage used to restrain livestock
  • Fish stock, semi-discrete subpopulations of a particular species of fish
  • Foundation stock, individual or general type of horses used as the foundation animals that create a new breed or bloodline
  • Livestock, animals kept for agricultural purposes
  • Stock fish, a type of dried fish product

People

  • Old Stock Americans, descendants of the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, of mostly British ancestry, who colonized America in the 17th and the 18th centuries
  • Racial stock, an obsolete term referring to racial groups

Plants

  • Stock (flower) (Matthiola), a genus of flowering plants
  • Virginia stock (Malcolmia maritima), a garden plant

Brands and enterprises

  • Stock (publishing house), 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
  • Stock Spirits, a Polish company established in 1884
  • Stock Transportation, a Canadian school bus operator

Economics

  • Stock (also capital stock) of a corporation, all of the shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided
  • Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time
  • STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading
  • Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or household
  • Tally stick § Split tally, in ancient financial accounting, the part of a split tally stick used as a receipt in a transaction

Clothing

  • Military stock, a leather collar issued to Napoleonic-era soldiers
  • Stock tie, a tie worn around the neck of a competitor riding in an equestrian event

Other uses

  • Stock (firearms), a part of a gun which interfaces with the shoulder or hand
  • Stock (food), a liquid flavoring base for soups and sauces
  • Stock (geology), an igneous rock formation
  • Stock, a type of changeling, a mythical creature
  • Card stock, a type of paper
  • Cattle catch or stocks, a move in some martial arts and wrestling
  • Infant bed, for sleeping babies, rarely called a stock
  • Label stock, a carrier for a label
  • Rolling stock, the vehicles that move on a railway
  • Stocks, a device for punishment or torture
  • Stöckli, sometimes called Stock, a traditional agricultural building in Switzerland and parts of Germany
  • Stock (dominoes), in dominoes, the tiles not picked up at the start which may be drawn later.
  • Bar stock, a common form of raw purified metal

See also

  • Stalk (disambiguation)
  • Standing stock (disambiguation)
  • Stocker (disambiguation)
  • Stocking (disambiguation)
  • Stocks (disambiguation)
  • Stocks (surname)
  • All pages with titles containing Stock
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