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2009.03.05
Although today's WordMaster has nothing to do with investing, it's well worth investing a few minutes of your time to add it to your ever-growing stock of business English expressions!
(IN/OUT OF) STOCK 在庫（がある／切れで）
- Stock (noun) is the available supply of something; for example, the products in a store or the office supplies in an office.
If a product is in stock, it's available in a store, warehouse, etc. If it's out of stock, it's no longer available.
If stores stock (verb) a product, the product is available there.
To stock (verb) a store, shelves, etc., is to fill them with a supply of one or more products. - 名詞の stock とは、お店にある商品やオフィスにある事務用品など、使用できる供給物、つまり、在庫のことです。
商品について in stock と言うと、お店や倉庫などで手に入る、つまり、在庫がある、という意味です。out of stock と言うと、もう手に入らない、つまり、在庫切れである、という意味になります。
stock a product と言うと、商品が在庫としてある、という意味です。
stock a store または stock shelves などと言うと、１つ以上の商品をお店や棚に置いていっぱいにする、という意味になります。
- (employees in a hardware store)
a: Do we still have some of those 15-watt energy saver light bulbs on the shelves?
b: I think so, but our stock is running low. I was going to order some more today. - (employee to customer at furniture store)
Our new stock comes in over the weekend, so why don't you come back on Monday and see what we have then? - We have a large stock of discontinued beauty products that we're selling at 50 to 80 percent off.
- (customer to salesperson at auto parts store)
a: I need a set of Berlitz wiper blades.
b: All right. Let me see if we have any in stock. - (to a customer)
That item has been out of stock for two weeks. It sold out fast. - (customer to salesperson at optical shop)
a: I'd like another pair of frames just like these.
b: I'm sorry, but we no longer stock those frames. - (advertisement)
We stock over 50,000 square feet of Persian rugs in all sizes, textures, and colors. - a: What do you do for a living?
b: I work at a supermarket. I stock the shelves in the morning.
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