stocker

See also: Stocker, and Stöcker

English

Etymology

From stock +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkə/
• Homophone: stalker (cot–caught merger)
• Hyphenation: stock‧er

Noun

stocker (plural stockers)

1. (agriculture) Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
   • 1914, Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep, Orange Judd Co., page 361:

     When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped.

   • 1918, Frank Duane Gardner, Live Stock and Dairy Farming, The John C. Winston Company, page 53:

     The production of stockers and feeders should be confined to those parts of the country where the larger part of the land cannot be plowed profitably, and grass is the principal crop.

   • 1988, Beef: Stocker Cattle, Clemson University, page 1:

     All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot.

   Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?

2. (automotive) A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.
   • 1968, Car Life‎^[1], page 75:

     For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.

   • 1993, Mike Mueller, Chrysler Muscle Cars →ISBN, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, page 86:

     Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board.

   • 2002, Jim Richardson, How to Build a Small-Block Chevy for the Street →ISBN, page 58:

     Any small-block Chevy engine, whether it be a stocker, street rod, or racer, will benefit from proper balancing.

3. One who crafts gun stocks.
   • 1900, George Teasdale, Experts on Guns and Shooting, Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307:

     We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.

4. One who stocks shelves with inventory.
   • 2003, Dominick Budnick, My Life as a Miracle: A Life of Fighting Cancer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

     I worked for two winters at Kmart in Arizona as a stocker and security guard. I was a stocker for Payless Drugs for two winters in West Seattle.

   • 2003, Donna Goodenough, Deadly Thirst, →ISBN, page 80:

     There were plenty of jobs at Star Crest that someone with a mental deficiency could handle and Davenport sought to get Alvin employed as a stocker.

5. One who supplies raw material to a machine.
   • 1930, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, The Negro in American Civilization, H. Holt and Company, page 87:

     _ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).

Translations

livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring

stock car

• Finnish: vakioauto

one who crafts gun stocks

one who stocks shelves with inventory

one who supplies raw material to a machine

Anagrams

• Rosteck, restock, rockest, rockets

French

Etymology

From stock +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔ.ke/

• Audio:

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Verb

stocker

1. to store (keep (something) while not in use)

   Synonym: entreposer

2. to stock; to stock up

Conjugation

Conjugation of stocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	stocker
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	stockant /stɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		stocké /stɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	stocke /stɔk/	stockes /stɔk/	stocke /stɔk/	stockons /stɔ.kɔ̃/	stockez /stɔ.ke/	stockent /stɔk/
	imperfect	stockais /stɔ.kɛ/	stockais /stɔ.kɛ/	stockait /stɔ.kɛ/	stockions /stɔ.kjɔ̃/	stockiez /stɔ.kje/	stockaient /stɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	stockai /stɔ.ke/	stockas /stɔ.ka/	stocka /stɔ.ka/	stockâmes /stɔ.kam/	stockâtes /stɔ.kat/	stockèrent /stɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	stockerai /stɔ.kʁe/	stockeras /stɔ.kʁa/	stockera /stɔ.kʁa/	stockerons /stɔ.kʁɔ̃/	stockerez /stɔ.kʁe/	stockeront /stɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stockerais /stɔ.kʁɛ/	stockerais /stɔ.kʁɛ/	stockerait /stɔ.kʁɛ/	stockerions /stɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	stockeriez /stɔ.kə.ʁje/	stockeraient /stɔ.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	stocke /stɔk/	stockes /stɔk/	stocke /stɔk/	stockions /stɔ.kjɔ̃/	stockiez /stɔ.kje/	stockent /stɔk/
	imperfect2	stockasse /stɔ.kas/	stockasses /stɔ.kas/	stockât /stɔ.ka/	stockassions /stɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	stockassiez /stɔ.ka.sje/	stockassent /stɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	stocke /stɔk/	—	stockons /stɔ.kɔ̃/	stockez /stɔ.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• stockage (noun)

Further reading

• “stocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.