Stock

Definition

stock /stɒk/ n ၁။ [C,U] ေရာင္းခ်ရန္ သိုေလွာင္ထားေသာ ကုန္။ ကုန္စည္ပစၥည္း၊ The shop had a good stock of camping equipment. ❍ Our new stock of winter coats will arrive soon. ❍ Your order can be supplied from stock. ‘Have you got copies of her book in stock?’ ‘No, I'm sorry, we're out of stock (of it) at the moment’. ၂။ [C,U] ~ (of sth) သိုေလွာင္ထားေသာပစၥည္း၊ စားနပ္ရိကၡာစသည္ လက္ဝယ္ရိွ ပစၥည္း၊ လက္က်န္ပစၥည္း။ have a good stock of logs for the winter ❍ Fuel/ Food stocks are running low. ❍ a country's housing stock (ie all the houses available for living in). ❍ Stationery is kept in the stock cupboard. ၃။ [U] ျမင္း၊ ႏြားစသည့္ ၿခံေမြးတိရစၧာန္။ buy some more breeding stock. See also LIVESTOCK ၄။ [C,U] အစိုးရ ထံ ပံုေသအတိုးျဖင့္ ေခ်းထားေသာေငြ။ government stock. ၅။ (က) [U] ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခု၏မတည္ေငြ၊ ပစၥည္း၊ အေဆာက္အအံု စသည့္ စုစုေပါင္းတန္ဖိုး အရင္းအႏီွး။ (ခ) [C usu pl ] ရင္းႏီွး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသည့္အေနျဖင့္ ယင္းတန္ဖိုးမွ ဝယ္ယူထားသည့္ တစ္စိတ္ တစ္ေဒသ။ စေတာ့။ invest in stocks and shares. ၆။ [U] မ်ဳိး႐ိုး။ ႐ိုးရာ။ She comes from Welsh farming stock (ie Her family were originally farmers in Wales). ၇။ [U] ( fml ) ဂုဏ္သတင္း။ His stock is high (ie He is well thought of). ၈။ [C,U] ငါး၊ အသား၊ အ႐ိုး ျပဳတ္ရည္။ gravy made with chicken stock. ၉။ [C] (ေသနတ္)ဒင္။ a rifle stock. ၁၀။ [C] ပင္ပြားကူးရန္ အသံုးျပဳေသာ အခံပင္။ မ်ဳိးခံပင္။ ၁၁။ stocks [pl] ထိတ္တံုး။ be put in the stocks. Compare PILLORY n ၁၂။ [U,C] ပ်ဳိတို႔ေမာင္ပန္းပင္။ adj ၁။ ပံုမွန္။ stock sizes ❍ one of our stock items. ၂။ ပံုေသကားက်။ လက္သံုး။ stock characters in soap opera ❍ He replied to all questions with the stock answer: ‘I have nothing to add. ’ v ၁။ (ကုန္၊ ပစၥည္း)တင္သည္။ Do you stock batteries? ❍ We stock all sizes. ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) ( esp passive ) လက္ဝယ္ထားရိွသည္။ ျဖည့္တင္းထားသည္။ ရႏိုင္သည္။ a well-stocked shop/ library/ freezer ❍ The museum shop is stocked with a wide range of souvenirs. ❍ a garden stocked with rare plants. ❏ on the stocks [ IDM ] ထုတ္လုပ္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ Our new model is already on the stocks and will be available in the autumn. ❏ stock-car n ၁။ (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲဝင္ႏိုင္ရန္ မြမ္းမံထားေသာ) ေရာင္းတမ္း ကား။ ၂။ ( US ) ကြၽဲႏြားတင္ မီးရထားတြဲ။ ❏ stock-cube n သား၊ ငါး ျပဳတ္ရည္အခဲ။ beef stock-cubes. ❏ stock exchange n စေတာ့ႏွင့္ရွယ္ယာဒိုင္။ the London Stock Exchange ❍ companies listed / quoted / trading on the stock exchange ❍ lose money on the stock exchange. ❏ stock-in-trade n [U]မူပိုင္ဟန္။ Flippant remarks are part of his stock-in-trade. ❏ stockist /'stɒkÇst/ n ကုန္ပစၥည္းအမ်ဳိးအမည္၊ အမွတ္တံဆိပ္ အလိုက္ သတ္သတ္မွတ္မွတ္ ေရာင္းခ်သည့္ဆိုင္။ available from all good stockists. ❏ stock market n စေတာ့ႏွင့္ရွယ္ယာဒိုင္။ ယင္းေဈးကြက္။ dealings on the stock market ❍ stock-market prices ❍ a stock-market crash. ❏ stock up (on/ with sth) (for sth) [ PHRV ] သိုမီွးထား သည္။ stock up with food for Christmas. ❍ We'd better stock up on biscuits for when the children get back. ❏ take stock (of sth) [ IDM ] (ပစၥည္းမ်ား)စာရင္း ေကာက္ သည္။ See also STOCKTAKING ❏ take stock (of sb/sth) [ IDM ] ဆင္ျခင္သံုးသပ္သည္။ After a year in the job, she decided it was time to take stock (of her career). See also LAUGHING-STOCK, ROLLING-STOCK

Examples

1. [stock of] : Keep a good stock of nutritious foods available.
2. Their stocks of ammunition were running dangerously low.
3. Much of the city’s housing stock is of very poor quality.
4. Time is vital if fish stocks are to recover.
5. [stock of] : He had soon exhausted his stock of jokes.
6. We’re having some new stock delivered this afternoon.
7. [in stock] : Do you have any of these batteries in stock at the moment?
8. [out of stock] : I’m afraid that size is out of stock.
9. He made a living buying and selling stocks and shares.
10. Technology stocks fell sharply today.
11. Add half a pint of chicken stock.
12. He comes from Irish stock.
13. The Prime Minister’s stock remains low with the electorate.