Translation guide
The English word "stock" has many meanings. This guide covers the most common ones for learners: inventory/supply, shares in a company, broth, and a few other uses.
Referring to items a store or business has available for sale or use.
The standard word for stock or inventory. Used in business contexts.
That product is out of stock.
Please check the stock.
Loanword from English, often used for household supplies or personal stockpile.
A more formal or accounting term for stock on hand.
Report the stock on hand at the end of the month.
Referring to shares of ownership in a company.
The standard word for a share of stock. Used in all financial contexts.
Referring to liquid made by simmering ingredients, used as a base for soups and sauces.
Japanese soup stock, typically made from kombu and bonito flakes. Essential in Japanese cooking.
Referring to animals kept on a farm, collectively.
General term for livestock or farm animals.
Referring to family background or descent.
Means family line or lineage.
Referring to something regularly performed or used, like a stock joke or stock character.
Means 'standard' or 'usual', often used for stock phrases or jokes.
The verb 'to stock', meaning to keep a supply of something.
Common verb meaning 'to put/place', used for keeping items in stock.
The store has a large stock of shoes.
トイレットペーパーのストックがもうない。
We're out of toilet paper stock.
彼はその会社の株をたくさん持っている。
He owns a lot of stock in that company.
The stock price went up.
Formal term for stock or shares, often used in compound words like 株式市場 (stock market).
The stock market is unstable.
Sometimes used in financial contexts as a loanword, but 株 is much more common.
I received stock options.
The stock is the soul of miso soup.
Loanword for Western-style stock, often used in recipes.
Make chicken stock.
Kanji form of だし, used in formal or written contexts.
Please teach me how to make stock.
Livestock farming is thriving in this region.
Refers to the livestock industry or animal husbandry, not the animals themselves.
I run a livestock farm.
He comes from a distinguished stock.
Literally 'bloodline', emphasizes genetic descent.
She comes from a stock of artists.
He told his stock joke.
Means 'fixed form' or 'standard pattern', used for stock phrases.
Memorize stock phrases.
この店は輸入食品を置いている。
This store stocks imported foods.
Means 'to store up' or 'lay in a supply', often for emergencies.
Stock up on water in case of disaster.
Means 'to lay in' or 'to purchase stock' for a business.
Stock new products.
inventory management
ran out of stock (at home)
I invested in stocks.
This soup needs a good stock.