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Stock

Meaning in investing & the stock market, with examples

/stɑːk/nounCore term

In investing & the stock market, stock means: A type of investment that gives you a small part of the ownership of a company. People also use the word for the shares of one particular company.

In Turkish: hisse senedi, hisse, pay

How it is used

One of the most common words in investing, especially in American English. People buy, sell, hold and pick stocks; news reports say stocks rose, fell or closed higher. It can be countable (three tech stocks) or uncountable (we own stock in the company).

Example sentences

  1. Bank stocks led the market higher after the strong quarterly results.

  2. She has held the same three stocks for more than ten years.

Common collocations

  • buy stocks
  • sell stocks
  • tech stocks
  • stock price
  • pick stocks
  • shareOne of the equal units into which the ownership of a company is divided. If you own shares, you own a part of the company.
  • equityOwnership in a company in the form of shares. In accounting, it also means the value left for shareholders after all debts are subtracted from the assets.
  • stock marketThe whole system in which shares of companies are bought and sold, including the exchanges, the investors and the prices they create.
  • shareholderA person or organisation that owns one or more shares in a company and therefore owns part of it, with rights such as voting and receiving dividends.
  • share priceThe amount of money one share of a company costs on the market at a given moment, set by the orders of buyers and sellers.

This word in other fields

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