stock book

noun

1. stock ledger ( def 1 ).
2. stores ledger.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock book¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

This new shop was also to be the headquarters of the Joint Stock Book Company, formed to further the object of printing and publishing Liberal works, under Carlile's supervision.

From Project Gutenberg

I went to the store and he had marked about twenty items on his stock book, which he said was a perpetual inventory.

From Project Gutenberg

To handle the mailing and sale A.T.&T. leased one of Wanamaker's block-square vacant buildings in Manhattan, hired 1,240 temporary employees, set up a line of special desks and files a block long to handle the biggest "stock book" in history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally when a certificate of stock has been assigned in blank as collateral security, which is often done, and never transferred to the pledgee on the books of the corporation, a memorandum only having been made on the stub of the certificate in the stock book, the pledgee is not a stockholder and cannot vote the stock.

From Project Gutenberg

She turned the pages of a stock book idly.

From Project Gutenberg

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