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bookstock

bookstock noun: a collection of books that belongs to a library or other institution.

Noun

bookstock (plural bookstocks)

  1. A collection of books that belongs to a library or other institution.
    • In the larger public library systems, now typical, a system of stock control which provides a sensitive “feedback” to the conditions throughout the bookstock is almost essential for a management structure which inevitably involves the delegation of the actual selection of titles to as many...1978, Archibald William McClellan, The Logistics of a Public Library Bookstock, Association of Assistant Librarians, page XII

Forms of bookstock

pluralbookstocks

Questions about bookstock

What does bookstock mean?
Bookstock means a collection of books that belongs to a library or other institution.
What part of speech is bookstock?
Bookstock is a noun.
What is the plural of bookstock?
The plural of bookstock is bookstocks.

Words near bookstock in the dictionary

  1. bookstalls
  2. bookstand
  3. bookstands
  4. bookstave
  5. bookstaves
  6. bookstock
  7. bookstop
  8. bookstops
  9. bookstore
  10. bookstorekeeper
  11. bookstorekeepers

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