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stock in trade

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stock-in-trade also stock in trade (stkn-trd, stkn-trd)
n.
1. All the merchandise and equipment kept on hand and used in carrying on a business.
2. The resources available to and habitually called on by a person in a given situation: A ready wit is her stock-in-trade.
stock in trade
n
1. (Business / Commerce) goods in stock necessary for carrying on a business
2. (Business / Commerce) anything constantly used by someone as a part of his profession, occupation, or trade friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade
Translations
stock in trade
n (= tools, materials, also fig) → Handwerkszeug nt; that joke is part of his stock in trade → den Witz hat er ständig auf Lager


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Where imposture, ignorance, and brutal cupidity, are the stock in trade of a small body of men, and one is described by these characteristics, all his fellows will recognise something belonging to themselves, and each will have a misgiving that the portrait is his own.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
And I have got nothing else, nor any other stock in trade except proverbs and more proverbs; and here are three just this instant come into my head, pat to the purpose and like pears in a basket; but I won't repeat them, for 'sage silence is called Sancho.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
That three-legged woman lay on the bridge, with her stock in trade so disposed as to command the most striking effect--one natural leg, and two long, slender, twisted ones with feet on them like somebody else's fore- arm.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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