I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
body stocking
breeding stock (= animals you keep to breed from )
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Benson took great care in selecting breeding stock .
Christmas stocking
fish stocks (= the quantity of fish in the sea )
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Fish stocks have declined dramatically.
in your stockinged/stocking feet (= not wearing shoes )
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She stood 5ft 6 inches tall in her stockinged feet.
laughing stock
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The programme has made the U.S. a laughing stock .
made...a laughing stock
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The programme has made the U.S. a laughing stock .
quoted on the stock exchange (= people can buy and sell shares in it )
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The company is now quoted on the stock exchange .
rolling stock
stock car
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stock car racing
stock certificate
stock company
stock cube
stock exchange
stock index
stock market
stock option
stocking filler
stocking mask
vegetable stock (= a liquid in which vegetables have been cooked )
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Gently cook the mushrooms and onions in the vegetable stock.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chicken
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Heat chicken stock with peeled and finely shredded garlic cloves.
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In a small saucepan, heat chicken stock to boiling.
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Cook the onion in the chicken stock for 6-7 minutes until almost tender.
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If stew is too thick, add chicken stock as needed for desired consistency.
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Add these to to pigeon, with white wine and chicken stock .
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Put the browned chicken back into the skillet and add the orange juice, chicken stock and chili sauce.
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Return the chicken and sausage to the pan, add the tomato, seasonings, rice and chicken stock , mixing gently.
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Mix the hot water, chicken stock and half and half.
exchange
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Members of the arbitration court organized for the stock exchange are appointed by the general meeting for a fixed term.
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There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange .
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Commodity and stock exchanges multiplied as dealing by sample became easier thanks to technical improvements and standardization.
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The Authority also supervises the working of the stock exchanges .
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On Jan. 24, 1990, a man carrying a bomb died while attempting to blow up the Istanbul stock exchange .
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As yet there is no formal stock exchange , although a handful of securities are traded on the over-the-counter market.
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This means that short selling shares for any period within a stock exchange account does not require stock borrowing.
housing
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Demographic structure and housing Changes in family structures since 1960 have coincided with changes in housing stock .
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These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations, depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock .
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Meanwhile the housing stock was being changed.
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Her area has many people with learning disabilities; the community is tolerant and the housing stock suits conversion.
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These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock .
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Failure to improve the condition of the remaining housing stock has also played an important part in the rise of ghetto conditions.
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It would improve the housing stock and decrease the future need for renovation and repair.
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Moscow city council decided on 27 June to privatize its housing stock .
index
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Since then the CBoT has launched various bond and stock index futures contracts though many have been delisted due to insufficient trading volumes.
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A stock index does not oscillate with such frightening amplitude as we have witnessed recently unless to announce some tectonic change ahead.
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Some estimates of the round-trip transactions costs involved in stock index arbitrage are set out in Table 5.1.
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Within a few years, feds also will be able to invest in a small-cap and an international stock index fund.
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The impasse sent Hong Kong stocks plummeting and the colony's main stock index closed 5.1 percent lower.
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The benchmark stock index , by comparison, gained 8 percent.
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With prices falling, the stock index futures were below underlying share prices so index arbitrageurs sold shares and bought futures.
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The Standard &038; Poor's 500-stock index inched up 1.29, to 1241.23.
market
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But last week's global stock market slump underscores the cartel's dilemma.
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In this high, volatile stock market , do you worry about your mutual funds and the people who manage them?
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The stock market represents the market for publicly traded stocks and shares.
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Light shares were up 3 real at 328 reais in midmorning trading on the Sao Paulo stock market .
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The company slipped into the red after the stock market crash of October 1987 led to sharply lower share trading.
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But now there's a stock market investment where you simply can't lose.
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Half-time profits 15% higher at £205.1m equalled best City expectations, but left the stock market cold.
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Mr Hugh Smith is committed to the principle of allowing users of the stock market more participation in the provision of services.
option
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In this way stock options have contributed generously to the swelling stock market bubble.
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To be effective, companies should issue 10 percent of new stock options to employees, he said.
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Each company has granted the other a 19 % stock option .
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The Company has other stock option plans in which former employees of the Ultramar Group participate.
price
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Or that stock prices have been vastly overvalued.
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Philip Morris' stock price dropped 6 1 / 8 points to 115 7 / 8.
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The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange.
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One of its programs, appropriately called Stock Mania, allows users to access stock prices free of charge.
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There was a huge stockmarket crash in October 1987 which wiped 24 percent off stock prices .
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Yahoo's stock price has been cut by half since last summer, but it's an overreaction, the company says.
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Lower utility stock prices usually suggest rates will rise.
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Q: The changes suggest that Nasdaq stock prices could become more volatile.
technology
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A 10.5 % drop for the week on the Nasdaq index underlined the slump in technology stocks .
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While all eight Nasdaq industry indexes were down yesterday, technology stocks took the biggest beating, by far.
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Analysts had figured the bad news from the giant microprocessor maker would put a damper on technology stocks .
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Is Fidelity Magellan Fund backing away from technology stocks ?
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The Nasdaq composite fell 8. 60 to 990. 21, though technology stocks ended the session relatively unchanged.
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While semiconductors and Internet stocks reflected the wild ride for technology stocks, banking stocks displayed powerful consistency throughout the year.
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Through the summer runup in technology stock prices, executives at the on-line service provider sat tight.
■ VERB
buy
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He would, for instance, secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account.
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His grandfather Henry believed that people helped companies raise capital by buying their stock .
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Those conditions drew selective buying of defensive stocks .
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If investors would put money in low-quality bonds, they might as well buy the stocks .
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Those who lent to the turnpike trusts were even more localised than those who bought canal stock .
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A tax on the purchase of corporate stock would induce some people to buy bonds instead of stock.
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Of course, this is not to say that one should not buy such stocks .
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Should you wait for the stock market to crash before you buy your stocks?
fall
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The Hong Kong stock market fell by 5 percent after Mr Li's attack.
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Government stocks fell by more than £1.
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Food stocks fell to their lowest level since the food crisis of the early 1970s.
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The Nasdaq Composite Index, heavy with tech stocks , fell 25. 25 points this week to 1008. 23.
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In the past two years Michelin stocks have fallen by 25 percent as a proportion of sales.
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The stock later fell to 214. 50, up 1. 66 percent.
hold
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The answer is that it simply is not necessary to hold a stock of money equal to the flow of spending.
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Concentrate on buying and holding high-quality stocks .
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Atkinson further recommended that universities should not hold large stocks in remote storage.
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To avoid damage in a down market, buy and hold stocks of companies with long records of rising earnings and dividends.
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In the anticipation of reduced demand, it is very easy to adjust production to avoid holding excessive stocks .
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Pension funds hold stocks for millions of employees.
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Stocking loans - used specifically to allow companies to hold necessary volumes of stock , as in car dealerships. 6.
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Flores also said the company planned to hold a special stock holders meeting soon to approve its articles of incorporation.
invest
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They also have $ 75,000 invested in stocks outside their plans.
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Associates introduced a new fund to invest in technology stocks amid sneers and snickers from analysts and rival fund groups.
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As with a unit-linked endowment, you invest directly on the stock market and are exposed to rising and falling prices.
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The guide will reveal how much the Magellan Fund had invested in tech stocks as of Nov. 30.
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This is an insurance policy that buys funds which are invested on the stock market.
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They invest it in blue-chip stocks .
rise
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The price of bellwether stocks has risen 50-80 percent in the past two months.
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Allmerica stock rose 1 / 2 to 24 3 / 4.
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Finance stocks rose 3.8 per cent and banks 2.3 per cent.
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Citicorp stock rose 1 / 4 to 63 1 / 2 yesterday.
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Bear Stearns stock rose 3 / 8 to 19 3 / 4 yesterday.
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The Merval stock market index rose 6. 86 points to 548. 19.
sell
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There is a financial risk in producing your own cards and there is little chance of selling old stock in future years.
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There also is talk that the private company might go public, selling stock to raise more cash for growth.
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But by 1979 he was selling enough stock from his Mum's garden shed to move into the Wanneroo premises.
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When your business is not doing good you combine with some-thing and sell more stock .
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After announcing this decision the company slashed prices to sell stock .
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Cohen urges investors to sell their Netscape stock .
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She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they'd picked up from various licensed dealers.
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But they may have to sell stocks if they fail to raise enough operating profits, he said.
trade
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Many of the shares covered by s.12 are traded on foreign stock exchanges.
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Money flow measures the volume of shares traded every time a stock goes up or down.
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In recent London trading , Seeboard stock was up 5p each at 532p.
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New exchanges sprang up for trading stock and they were filled with new faces, men even younger-looking than Halsey.
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The predecessor company split into three publicly traded stocks in December 1995, concentrating on insurance, industrial businesses and entertainment.
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Out of 155 issues traded , nearly two stocks rose for every one that fell.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lock, stock, and barrel
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He moved the whole company, lock , stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
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The Knolls have owned the town lock , stock, and barrel for 15 years.
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They sold everything lock , stock, and barrel.
surgical stocking/collar etc
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Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman.
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This time we had the welcome addition of a sheepskin backrest, an inflatable neck support and a selection of surgical collars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jodie always had a large stock of brandy in her cupboard.
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Sellew has built his stock to a herd of nearly 100 goats.
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Someone came in half an hour ago and bought up our entire stock of Italian wine.
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The government has said it has no need for chemical weapons and will destroy its stocks entirely.
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The new video store has a huge stock of movies to rent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they try to cut stocks, this is likely to make a big dent in orders to manufacturing industry and importers.
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During 1939, following the trolleybus conversions in North London, a number of rolling stock changes were made.
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If stocks recover, the North Sea could produce more than 10 times as many fish as were caught last year.
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If the interviewers and investigators see youthful error behind the Phillips incident and genuine remorse afterward, his stock will rise.
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Place couscous in a mixing bowl and pour boiling stock over it.
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The total retail value of their stock at this period was estimated at £200,000.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
item
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The response has been so good that many shops, and garden centres in particular, may stock the items all year round.
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Limited assortment stores, sometimes called box stores, stock less than 1500 items; typically they sell no items requiring refrigeration.
product
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So far, no traditional bookshops have stocked the products .
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Others may take the form of short term loans or guarantees or agreements to stock the product or to write about it.
range
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It stocks a relatively small range of products and plans to hit the supermarkets in the processed-foods business.
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We stock an attractive range of terracotta pots which complement the herbs very well.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in your stockinged/stocking feet
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It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet.
lock, stock, and barrel
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He moved the whole company, lock , stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
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The Knolls have owned the town lock , stock, and barrel for 15 years.
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They sold everything lock , stock, and barrel.
surgical stocking/collar etc
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Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman.
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This time we had the welcome addition of a sheepskin backrest, an inflatable neck support and a selection of surgical collars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you stock camping equipment?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It works so well at San Pablo that more trout are stocked and caught at this lake than any other in California.
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Tetbury's one and only bookstore isn't stocking it even though nearby shops are heading for a sellout.
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The collection is stocked in 100 specialist bridal shops around the country.
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The Czechs were even stocking up with beer for the mess back home.
III. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in your stockinged/stocking feet
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It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet.
lock, stock, and barrel
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He moved the whole company, lock , stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
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The Knolls have owned the town lock , stock, and barrel for 15 years.
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They sold everything lock , stock, and barrel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her speech contained all the stock phrases about increasing productivity and reducing costs.
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The same questions seem to be asked every time, and he gives his stock answers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even the stock market is becoming skeptical.
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In the end, however, the central bank left interest rates unchanged, and stock prices rebounded.
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Sohu's stock price is languishing below Dollars 2-down from its Nasdaq listing price of Dollars 13 last July.
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The move, approved today by its board, was announced after the stock markets closed.
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While productivity, profits, executive pay and the stock market keep going up, workers' incomes keep going down.