summer stock

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   theatrical productions performed by a stock company during the summer

   Broadertheatrical production

Questions about summer stock

What does summer stock mean?

summer stock means "theatrical productions performed by a stock company during the summer".

Is summer stock a common word?

summer stock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.