(idiomatic) To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation.

A market for the trading of company stock. / (rare) A cattle market.

(management, operations) Additional inventory planned to buffer against the variability in supply and demand plans, that could otherwise result in inventory shortages.

(law) Shares of stock in a business that are inflated by parties colluding with the seller making inflated offers for the property that the stock represents, which are reported to potential sellers as indicative of the value of the stock.

plural of stock loan

(finance) an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value

(finance, UK, US) A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar/pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.

(finance) A loan structure using free-trading stock or in some cases restricted stock as collateral.

(transitive, chiefly in the negative) To have faith in; to believe; to give credence to.

Any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.