stock companies

noun

plural of stock company
as in troops

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  1. troops
  2. companies
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  • Another aircraft carrier and thousands of additional troops are also on their way to the Middle East.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The incident prompted El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, to deploy more than 2,000 troops to Haiti.
    — Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of troops
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  • Meanwhile, companies are deploying AI agents by the thousand, and not one of them has read the company policy or heard the new local court ruling.
    — Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • However, credit monitoring depends on information that lenders and other companies report to credit bureaus.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
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