Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stock-in-trade

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables: stock--in--trade
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"[…] 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 […]"
"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"

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

stocks in trade (plural) stock and trade (alternative) stock in trade (alternative)

Questions

What does stock-in-trade mean?: Merchandise and other necessary supplies kept on hand in order to conduct business.

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