lackstock

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noun

A person who has no money in stocks and shares.

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Meanings

nounlackstock (plural lackstocks)

plural lackstocks

  1. obsoletebusinessA person who has no money in stocks and shares.

    Only let me say, that I should be as glad as you could be to find myself in possession of a good independent fortune: and that we poor lacklands and lackstocks who have to earn our livelihood, must endeavour to make the best of it.

    1802 November 6, Robert Southey, Letter to To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq.; republished in Warter, John Wood, editor, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey, volume 3, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856, page 212

Origin

From lack + stock.

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Translations

Finnish osaton, osakkeeton
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APA

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Chicago

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