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rollingstock

rollingstock is the alternative form of rolling stock.

Meaning of rolling stock

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.

Origin of rollingstock

From rolling + stock.

Questions about rollingstock

What is rollingstock the alternative form of?
Rollingstock is the alternative form of rolling stock.

Words near rollingstock in the dictionary

  1. rolling-pin
  2. rolling-pins
  3. Rollinger
  4. rollingly
  5. rollings
  6. rollingstock
  7. Rollingwood
  8. Rollins
  9. Rollinson
  10. Rollison
  11. rollkur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rollingstock (page history and authors); rolling stock (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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