STOCKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stocked mean? 

• STOCKED (adjective)
  The adjective STOCKED has 1 sense:

1. furnished with more than enough

  Familiarity information: STOCKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOCKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished with more than enough

Synonyms:

stocked; stocked with

Context example:

a well-stocked store

Similar:

equipped; furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))

 Context examples 

I do not think you will find your woods by any means worse stocked than they were.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the meantime the claim was cleaned up and firewood stocked in.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The slop-chest is a sort of miniature dry-goods store which is carried by all sealing schooners and which is stocked with articles peculiar to the needs of the sailors.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, he said, I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house stands among fine meadows facing the south-east, with an excellent kitchen-garden in the same aspect; the walls surrounding which I built and stocked myself about ten years ago, for the benefit of my son.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)