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A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).

  2. 2

    A surname.

    Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.

  3. 3

    Also a form of StocktonDiminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker. * Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker. * (Stockton): Clipping of Stockton.

Forms

plural
Stocks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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