Stock-in-trade

Quick meaning: Stock-in-trade is a noun meaning Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business.

Meaning

Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business.

More Meanings

1. A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business.

Example Sentences

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

[…] 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 […]

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include merchandise, commodity, specialty, speciality, specialization, goodwill.

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