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stock in trade
noun
- 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.
stock in trade
noun
- 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
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of stock in trade1
Example Sentences
A paper in Nature traces how dinosaurs became the dominant animals on the planet in the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods by using fossilized dung and vomit, rather than paleontologists’ usual stock in trade, bones, and teeth.
Promises on immigration have been the stock in trade for the last 15 years of UK politics.
Lawyerly justifications of Trump’s bogus claims are Vance’s stock in trade, but he doesn’t appear to have used the phrase directionally correct himself.
Anslinger was one of the greatest con men of that century, and racist canards were his stock in trade.
As a fighter whose stock in trade is the knockout, British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley feels he can't criticise people for craving a spectacle he very much wants to supply.
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