name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stocker
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈstɑkɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
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homophone: stalker (cot–caught merger)
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CMU ARPABET: S T AA1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
Examples
- Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?
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noun
Meaning 3
A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
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noun
Meaning 4
One who crafts gun stocks.
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noun
Meaning 5
One who stocks shelves with inventory.
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noun
Meaning 6
One who supplies raw material to a machine.
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noun
Meaning 7
a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: domestic animal, domesticated animal
History
Etymology
* As an English, German and Swiss/Alemannic German surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”), see Stock. * As a Dutch surname, from the noun stocker (“jailer”). * As an English surname, from the noun stocker (“one who sells stockfish”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker. * As an Irish surname, from mac an stocaire (“son of the trumpeter”).
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock English -er English stocker From stock + -er.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: vakioauto — stock car
- Italian: scaffalista — one who stocks shelves with inventory