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• n  any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation

• If you're tired of the sloppy, mawkish sentiment that is the stock-in-trade of most mainstream greeting cards and e-cards, then you'll want to visit someecards.
• These absurd fictions used to be the stock-in-trade of ninth-graders bent on frightening the younger kids.
• Estes Kefauver was used to such evasive replies and sullen reticence; they were the stock-in-trade of the nation's leading mystery men.

News & Articles

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• Jack L. B. Gohn: Prohibiting Prohibition – It’s high time
  &via=&related=DolcePixel" In another era, Uncle Burt would have been more of a paradox. His stock-in-trade was a dangerous and addictive substance sold to the public in full awareness of the danger. &via=&related=DolcePixel"
  Oct. 22, 2013 - The Daily Record

Quotes

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• Tony Blair in New York Times
  I'm afraid you are going to get the old stock-in-trade: 'We never comment on security matters' - except when we want to, obviously,Mr. Blair replied.