stock in trade
or stock-in-trade
the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
resources or abilities peculiar to an individual or group or employed for a specific purpose: A feeling for language should be part of the stock in trade of any writer.
Origin of stock in trade
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How to use stock in trade in a sentence
In discussing literature, they spoke of the perennial stock-in-trade of the republic of letters—woman's sin.
Honorine | Honore de BalzacThis Combination Show—old stock-in-trade of one company, and cast-offs from another—ain't the best o' bisness arter all.
Nowadays to sally forth with their stock-in-trade on their backs or in a cart is no longer the practice of the workers.
Tyrol and its People | Clive HollandThus the principal part of Parrys stock-in-trade—his rockets, incendiary kites, and improved Grecian fires—were not forthcoming.
Byron | Richard EdgcumbeTheir "plant," it is true, is not large; a few coloured chalks and a soft duster form all their necessary stock-in-trade.
Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.
British Dictionary definitions for stock in trade
goods in stock necessary for carrying on a business
anything constantly used by someone as a part of his profession, occupation, or trade: friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade
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