stock photograph
- noun
- /stɑk ˈfɒtəˌgræf/
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fotografía de archivo
- Before publishing, she searched for a stock photograph of a serene landscape to accompany her blog post.
Examples
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The magazine used a stunning stock photograph to illustrate the article on travel.
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Many websites offer high-quality stock photographs for businesses to use in their marketing materials.
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There aren't any "functional" price comparison sites for stock photographs, but you can use Google again to discover stock websites that offer the best deal on a particular photograph.
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Synonyms
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A photo made by professionals that people buy or use for projects
How Affordable
- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'stock' (regularly available/in inventory) and 'photograph' makes it partially predictable that it refers to a photo from an existing collection. However, the commercial/licensing sense (photos licensed for reuse) and the polysemy of 'stock' (which can also mean 'conventional' or 'formulaic') are not fully transparent to a B1 learner, so the precise industry meaning may not be inferable without exposure.
Etymology
The compound stock photograph comes from the idea of a stock, a ready supply of goods, and a photograph. Imagine a photo agency keeping boxes of pictures ready to sell. Because these images were kept 'in stock' and reused, they came to mean pictures you can 'license' instead of making a new one.