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stock in trade

 
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–noun
1. the requisites for carrying on a business, esp. goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
2. 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.
Also, stock-in-trade.

Origin:
1660–70
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stock-in-trade also stock in trade   (stŏk'ĭn-trād', stŏk'ĭn-trād')
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.

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Main Entry: stock in trade
: the equipment, merchandise, or materials necessary to or used in a trade or business
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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