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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stock-in-trade - any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation; "friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade"
equipment - an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Translations
stock-in-trade [ˈstɒkɪnˈtreɪd] N (= tools etc) → existencias fpl (fig) → repertorio m
that joke is part of his stock-in-tradees un chiste de su repertorio
stock-in-trade [ˌstɒkɪnˈtreɪd] n (goods) → merce f a magazzino; (tools) → strumenti mpl di lavoro (fig) → ferri mpl del mestiere
it's his stock-in-trade → è la sua specialità
stock-in-trade [ˌstɒkɪnˈtreɪd] n (goods) → merce f a magazzino; (tools) → strumenti mpl di lavoro (fig) → ferri mpl del mestiere
it's his stock-in-trade → è la sua specialità


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This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.
The argument that no one would keep his cattle in such exposed and inaccessible spots has no weight at all, if you reflect that in those days a man's cattle were his capital, his stock-in-trade, his daughter's dowries.
Their stock-in-trade is a little coloured water and a very great shamelessness.
 
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