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Stock (disambiguation)

Stock can refer to:

Stock is a share of ownership in a company.
Stock (food) is a soup and flavoring base.
Inventory is a term for "finished goods", or sometimes raw material kept in storage.
Stocks a device used for public humiliation, punishment, and torture.
The stock of a firearm.
Stock can refer to the base material used in some fabrication work, such as wood for woodworking or the metal used in a welding application.
To discern between stocks and flows is a core concept of System Dynamics Modelling.
Stock in geology refers to a medium sized igneous intrusion with outcrop area less than about 100 km².
Stock is a term for livestock kept on a farm.
A stock of fish refers to a fish population in a defined area which is of interest to fishery managers.

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