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IN STOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in stock mean?
• IN STOCK (adjective)
The adjective IN STOCK has 1 sense:
1. available for use or sale
Familiarity information: IN STOCK used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Available for use or sale
Context example:
they have plenty of stonewashed jeans in stock
Similar:
available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)
Context examples
He noted it was the best wine the grocer had in stock.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
All were agreed that one could be ordered, but that it was not a usual size of pencil and that it was seldom kept in stock.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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