Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A workman who makes or fits gun-stocks.
- noun One who is employed in the felling and grubbing up of trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun agriculture
livestock that iswintered and then sold in thespring - noun automotive
stock car ; acar used for racing but without significant alteration since its production by the manufacturer - noun One who crafts gun stocks
- noun One who
stocks shelves with inventory - noun one who supplies raw material to a machine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment
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Examples
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I'm usually pretty good about marking the date and species on all sealed fish, but this 12-inch brown trout, no doubt a local stocker, is anonymous and apparently slipped out of view during cold storage.
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I'm usually pretty good about marking the date and species on all sealed fish, but this 12-inch brown trout, no doubt a local stocker, is anonymous and apparently slipped out of view during cold storage.
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We have outlined four different stages that will take your stocker from a standard issue 4×4 to a “built to the hilt” utility machine that breathes fire (not really, but darn close).
Power Up Your 4x4 2006
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Nearby, you’ll find a towering bin, called a stocker, filled with wafers waiting to be processed by this equipment.
The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing « Isegoria 2008
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Does that mean we can expect a new Ri-Ri album as a stocking stocker this holiday season?
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You worked in retail chain stores (Kresge, a drug store chain, Marshalls as a night stocker) for most of your life and to pretend otherwise is side-spittingly hilarious.
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Cool catch, although I wonder if that fish was a recent stocker, if it went for powerbait?
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If you are fishing stocker rainbows then power bait fished on the bottom works all over the nation.
best trout bait 2009
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Cool catch, although I wonder if that fish was a recent stocker, if it went for powerbait?
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The poorest person (me) gets a college education and rather than earning $10,000 as a shelf-stocker earns $20,000 as a secretary – admittedly boring and an underutilization of my skills, but a job nonetheless.
Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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