STOCK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stock up mean? 

• STOCK UP (verb)
  The verb STOCK UP has 1 sense:

1. amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

  Familiarity information: STOCK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOCK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy in; stock; stock up

Context example:

let's stock coffee as long as prices are low

Hypernyms (to "stock up" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stock up"):

overstock (stock excessively)

understock (stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Stock up on new things for your kitchen, a new piece of furniture, or electronics, but be sure to do so as early in the month as possible.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Stock up on flowers, a chilled bottle of champagne, and candles, and revel in your love as you ring in the New Year, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)