stock-in-trade
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stock-in-trade
noun stocks in trade · stock and trade · stock in trade
- Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business. 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.
- A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business. Ideas are the chief stock-in-trade of newspaper writers and generally they are the scarcest stock in market, but they do come occasionally
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noun merchandise and other necessary supplies for business
| Русский | запа́с това́ров zapás továrov |
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