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STOCKED WITH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stocked with mean?
• STOCKED WITH (adjective)
The adjective STOCKED WITH has 1 sense:
1. furnished with more than enough
Familiarity information: STOCKED WITH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnished with more than enough
Synonyms:
stocked; stocked with
Context example:
a well-stocked store
Similar:
equipped; furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))
Context examples
The slop-chest is a sort of miniature dry-goods store which is carried by all sealing schooners and which is stocked with articles peculiar to the needs of the sailors.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Well, he said, I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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