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We paid a dollar a share for the common stock and five dollars a share for the preferred stock--which seemed to be a fair price considering that no interest had ever been paid upon the bonds and a dividend on the stock was a most remote possibility.

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  1. noun A supply accumulated for future use; a store.
  2. noun The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.
  3. noun All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.
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market ·  price ·  fund ·  supply ·  product ·  value ·  bond ·  share ·  sale ·  production

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stock:   stocks ·  stocking ·  stocked
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  1. Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, tree trunk.

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  1. from Middle English stocke, stokke, stok, stoke, stoc (plural stokkes, the stocks), from Anglo-Saxon stoc, stocc (stocc-), a post, trunk, stock, = OFries. stok = Middle Dutch stock, Dutch stok = Middle Low German stok, Low German stock = Old High German stoc, stock, Middle High German stoc (later Italian stocco, a rapier), German stock = Icelandic stokkr = Danish stok = Swedish stock (not recorded in Gothic (Moesogothic)), a post, stock (hence, from Teutonic, Old French estoc, a stock, trunk of a tree, race, etc., = Italian stocco, a stock, trunk of a tree, rapier, etc.: see stocco, stoccade, stock, tuck, etc.); generally supposed to be connected with the similar words, of similar sense, stick, stake, and so with stack; but the phonetic connection is not clear. Assuming the sense ‘stick’ or ‘club’ to be original, a connection may be surmised with Sanskrit √ tuj (orig. *stug?), thrust. The senses of this noun are numerous and complicated; the Middle English senses are in part due to the Old French estoc.
  2. from Middle English stocken, stokken = Middle Dutch Middle High German stocken, German stöcken, put in the stocks; from the noun: see stock, n.
  3. from Old French estoc = Italian stocco, a rapier: see stock, and cf. estoc, tuck.
  4. from stock, n.
 

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