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rolling stock

rolling stock noun: all vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered.

rolling stock: all vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered
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Noun

rolling stock (countable and uncountable, plural rolling stocks)

  1. (collective, uncountable) All vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered.
    • ... while Grand Union says spare rolling stock could be used to provide additional capacity during events at the Principality Stadium and Celtic Manor Resort.2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15
  2. (countable, uncommon) Any such vehicle.

rolling stock meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

rolling stock in Tamil

சுழலிருப்பு, உருட்டல் இரும்பு

rolling stock in Kannada

ಹಳಿಬಂಡಿಗಳು, ರೈಲು ಬಂಡಿಗಳು, ಉರುಳು ಬಂಡಿಗಳು

rolling stock in Indonesian

railway vehicles collectively
bakal pelanting
any railway vehicle
bakal pelanting

Forms of rolling stock

pluralrolling stocks
alternative formrolling-stock
alternative formrollingstock

Words formed from rolling stock

Questions about rolling stock

What does rolling stock mean?
Rolling stock means all vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered.
What is rolling stock in Tamil?
Rolling stock in Tamil is சுழலிருப்பு, உருட்டல் இரும்பு. See Rolling stock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rolling stock?
Rolling stock is a noun.
What is the plural of rolling stock?
The plural of rolling stock is rolling stocks.

Words near rolling stock in the dictionary

  1. rolling skin disease
  2. rolling spider
  3. rolling spiders
  4. rolling start
  5. rolling starts
  6. rolling stock
  7. rolling stocks
  8. rolling stone
  9. rolling stones
  10. rolling stop
  11. rolling stops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rolling stock (page history and authors); rolling stock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rolling stock (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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