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cows, oxen, sheep, goats: Don't forget to water the stock
before driving to the village. 5 share, ownership, investment,
capital, funds; property, assets: He owned ten shares of stock
in the corporation. The company's stock is worth next to nothing
today. 6 take stock. weigh (up), estimate, review, appraise,
look at, Colloq size up: We must take stock of the situation
and decide what to do.
--adj. 7 routine, stereotyped, banal, clich‚d, commonplace,
usual, hackneyed, ordinary, stale, staple, run-of-the-mill,
tired, old, everyday, customary, set, standard, traditional,
trite, worn out, Colloq corny: Ask him how he is and you always
get his stock reply, 'Fair to meddling'. 8 standard, ordinary,
regular, routine, staple: The shop does not carry 'extra tall'
or 'extra short', only stock sizes.
--v. 9 carry, have, have or make available, handle, deal in,
market, sell, supply, furnish, provide, offer, trade in, keep:
The shop stocked a wide range of hardware. 10 Often, stock up
(on). accumulate, amass, pile up, stockpile, hoard, store (up),
cache, lay in, inventory: Everyone stocked up on food in case
the village was blocked by snow.
stocky adj. thickset, sturdy, chunky, dumpy, solid, stumpy, burly,
beefy, heavy-set, squat, pyknic, mesomorphic: He is stocky and
powerfully built.
stodgy adj. stuffy, dull, heavy, ponderous, elephantine, boring,
tedious, humdrum, tiresome, turgid, uninteresting,
unimaginative, dry-as-dust, jejune, vapid, dreary, flat,
colourless, bland, Colloq ho-hum, blah, deadly: The speaker was
boring and gave the stodgiest talk I have ever heard.
stoical adj. stoic, impassive, resigned, apathetic, cool, unemotional,
emotionless, frigid, imperturbable, calm, dispassionate,
indifferent, phlegmatic, long-suffering, stolid, disciplined,
self-possessed, (self-)controlled, Colloq unflappable: Bertram
remained stoical as the judge read out the sentence of death.
stoicism n. indifference, self-possession, austerity, self-control,
fortitude, calmness, calm, coolness, imperturbability,
longanimity, forbearance, patience, fatalism, resignation,
Colloq unflappability: The people accepted the news of one