Meaning of stock-in-trade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business.
   uncountable, usually
2. A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.”

“[…] 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.”

“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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