stock-in-trade

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  2. A technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person, group of persons, or an organization, often in the course of their business. uncountable,usually
    — Ideas are the chief stock-in-trade of newspaper writers and generally they are the scarcest stock in market, but they do come occasionally

词形变化

stocks in trade plural stock and trade alternative stock in trade alternative
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