Definition of stock-in-trade
1
: the equipment, merchandise, or materials necessary to or used in a trade or business
2
: something that resembles the standard equipment of a tradesman or business
humor was her stock-in-trade as a writer
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The first known use of stock-in-trade was in 1721
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