stock photos
Generic commercial pictures
Stock photos are professional photographs licensed for commercial use, available from image libraries for purchase or subscription.
They cover common subjects—business meetings, happy families, nature scenes—and are used in advertising, websites, and publications when custom photography isn't practical.
The term often carries connotations of generic or clichéd imagery: The brochure was full of stock photos of people shaking hands.
- imagesVisual depictions
- licensingGranting official permission
- picturesVisual depictions of scenes
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- commercialPaid broadcast promotion
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- Image Archivesimage archives, picture libraries
- filler contentfiller, fluff, pablum, boilerplate, lorem ipsum
- visualsimage, illustrations, images, diagram, chart
- free stuff onlinefree ebooks, free trials, freeware, free courses, free software
- image collectionsdigital album, family album, camera roll, wedding album, graduation album
- media collectionsmedia library, video library, music collection, film library, sound library