🇬🇧 Stock meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

When something is stock, it means the shop already has it right there on the shelf, ready for you to buy. You don’t have to wait for the shop to order it or for it to be delivered. It’s already in the store, like a cookie that’s already in the jar and not still in the oven.

The stock noodle-shaped pool float looked ready to rescue anyone from serious swimming and replace it with serious silliness.

The stock socks with tiny pizzas on them smelled normal, but my brother still tried to eat one, just in case.

The stock unicorn notebook sparkled so hard I’m pretty sure it already knew my secrets before I wrote them.

The stock superhero cape was hanging so heroically that even the coat hangers felt braver.

The stock frog umbrella kept staring at me like it knew I had homework I wasn’t doing.

She pressed her face to the glass. She whispered, "in stock." A red tag said in stock over the blue scarf. Other tags read out of stock on empty hooks. The clerk smiled and said, "It's in stock now." His hands steady, he lifted the last scarf marked in stock. Relief and a small laugh — the scarf was hers.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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