0 the typical characteristics or behaviour of someone or something:
1 a person's typical way of behaving, or a skill that is usual for someone:
2 goods, such as parts, materials, and other assets, that a company or person owns:
4 someone's usual behaviour or characteristics:
Even at this early stage in the century the perilous bear encounter had become a central part of the imaginative stock-in-trade.
His work is a testament to the value of detailed research on a community far removed from the stock-in-trade of most historians.
The past future has always been part of the stock-in-trade of a traditional grammarian.
That stock-in-trade is so precious that each hour-indeed, each breath-is valuable beyond limit.
Comedian's stock-in-trade gets to need bolder tune.
Your stock-in-trade is your life.
The patronising answer is the stock-in-trade here.
For builders, whose land is their stock-in-trade, the tax should be at corporation tax rates.