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stock-in-trade

noun

Definitions

  1. Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business.

    • […] Oscar was in the midst of drafting an account of Red Ochre's stock-in-trade for presenting to a man named Burywell who was contemplating taking on the lease […]
    • Devons Road has had its teething troubles as a dieselised depot, just as have the diesel locomotives which are its stock-in-trade.

  2. A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an…

    A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business.

    • Ideas are the chief stock-in-trade of newspaper writers and generally they are the scarcest stock in market, but they do come occasionally

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA