# stocks

Pronunciation: say "STOKS" US /stɑks/, UK /stɒks/

## Noun

1. Plural of stock. — plural of stock
   - Simple: Plural of stock. Use it when there is more than one.
   - _She sold most of her stocks before the market dropped._
   - _The warehouse keeps healthy stocks of spare parts on hand._
2. A wooden frame with holes for the ankles, similar to a pillory, once used to restrain offenders in public for humiliation and punishment.
   - Simple: A wooden frame that locked someone's feet in place so people could mock them as punishment.
   - _Petty offenders were fastened in the stocks for the market crowd to ridicule._
   - _The magistrate sentenced him to three hours in the stocks for public drunkenness._
4. The framework that supports a ship during construction and from which it is finally launched.
   - Simple: The wooden frame that holds a ship while it is being built, before it slides into the water.
   - _The frigate stood on the stocks while shipwrights fitted her planking._
   - _Crowds gathered at the yard to watch the vessel leave the stocks at high tide._

## Verb

3. Third-person singular simple present indicative of stock. — third-person singular simple present indicative of stock
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of stock. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The pharmacy stocks several brands of the same medication._
   - _He stocks the pond with trout each spring._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/stocks (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).