| 词汇 | block of stock |
| 词源 | block of stock. People have been buying blocks of stock, a large number of shares in a company, on the stock market since the late 19th century. In fact, a humorous anonymous poem about a block of stock appeared in Carolyn Wells’s A Whimsey Anthology (1906): He bought a little block of stock The day he went to town; And in the nature of such things, That Stock Went Right Straight Down! |
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