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vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To acquire or increase stock 2 (context intransitive English) To swell up (usually refers to edema in a leg) 3 To extirpate; to dig up.
Usage examples of "stock up".
They had been gone before the Skinners arrived, driving the stock up into the hills.
He let the whole thing run its route, right to the point where the man was explaining that when an owner wished to sell his share in the company, he found it expedient to work through a central auction system that would put his stock up for the highest bidder, when Vornan quietly and devastatingly admitted that he still couldn't quite grasp the concepts of ownership, corporations, and profit, let alone the transfer of stock interests.
He let the whole thing run its route, right to the point where the man was explaining that when an owner wished to sell his share in the company, he found it expedient to work through a central auction system that would put his stock up for the highest bidder, when Vornan quietly and devastatingly admitted that he still couldn’.
Wal, I reckon you'd better stock up before you hit thet stretch of country.
You see, all this stock up here is in poor shape after the winter they’.
The Store was bribing people to shop in its food department, and Bill knew the bribes were working, because he and Ginny were going to stock up on a bunch of groceries tomorrow -- and if _they_ could be bought, anyone could be bought.
It did occur to him once that he probably had been a soldier if his body would insist on taking every chance it got to stock up on sleep, but try as he might, he never had another flash of insight like the drugged dream that had given him back his real name.
He'd put his stock up considerably by challenging Man Mountain here, and he'd have lost everything if he'd backed down.
He would switch cars, stock up on food and bottled water, and race cross-country, eastward, for Atlanta and Savannah.
In ten years, I might breed stock up again to the quality of what we had.