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private stocks

private stocks is the plural of private stock.

Meaning of private stock

Noun

private stock (usually uncountable, plural private stocks)

  1. (usually, set phrase) A supply of something, especially alcoholic beverages, belonging to a person or a commercial establishment and of such quality that it is usually reserved for the owner or for favoured friends or customers.
    • [T]o feed 126 souls, we had but . . .
      Three ham-sandwiches, and a pot of currant-jelly, and 197 bottles
      of brandy, rum, madeira, pale ale (my private stock) . . .1869, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Burlesques

Questions about private stocks

What is private stocks the plural of?
Private stocks is the plural of private stock.

Words near private stocks in the dictionary

  1. private shop
  2. private shops
  3. private siding
  4. private sidings
  5. private stock
  6. private stocks
  7. private-label
  8. private-labeled
  9. private-labeling
  10. private-labelled
  11. private-labelling

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