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: --
That is mere common sense, but common sense is the stock-in-trade of much judicial decision-making.
I hope, therefore, that those arguments will go on being part of the stock-in-trade of the party opposite.
And that is only half the story; that is only the damage caused to the goods and plant and stock-in-trade consumed by the flames.
Prior to that stock-in-trade was rated; so were the contents of houses.
Indeed, since he has been shadow social security spokesman his principal stock-in-trade has been scaremongering.
In my full-time occupation as a journalist it was clear to me that information and access to it was the stock-in-trade of that profession.
Pre-arranged code words with hidden meaning were the stock-in-trade of all of us as prisoners of war.
For builders, whose land is their stock-in-trade, the tax should be at corporation tax rates.
