Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun All the merchandise and equipment kept on hand and used in carrying on a business.
- noun The resources available to and habitually called on by a person in a given situation.
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- noun
Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to do business. - noun A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation
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Examples
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Such comments are unlikely to endear him to Liverpool's under-fire players, which is a shame as they're crying out for a bit of the mongrel that is the Afghan Hound lookalike's stock-in-trade.
Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend Barry Glendenning 2010
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This 2.5 percent contribution is imposed on a Muslim's savings and stock-in-trade, payable to the state annually to fund social programs.
Faheem Younus: How Islam Can Eliminate The U.S. Debt Faheem Younus 2011
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Their stock-in-trade is to dehumanize, humiliate and relegate human beings to caricatures.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: "Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption" Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Though he is capable of the full range of human emotion, the staples of "guilt and anger" that he identified once early in his career "after 14 Pernods" as his songwriting stock-in-trade remain dominant themes.
Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay' Tim Adams 2010
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Jack Shafer, who makes red-penciling the Times his stock-in-trade, was less forgiving.
Beyond Jewspotting or Why We Care About Jews in Unlikely Places « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings.
Psychedelic Denver 2009
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John C. Wright shares an appreciation of David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus: "No mainstream book can compare for sheer, headlong imagination with a science fiction book, because imagination is the stock-in-trade of science fiction."
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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John C. Wright shares an appreciation of David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus: "No mainstream book can compare for sheer, headlong imagination with a science fiction book, because imagination is the stock-in-trade of science fiction."
February 2009 2009
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