stock company

stock company (plural stock companies)

1. (finance) an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value
2. a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management

• “stock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.