stock-in-trade

1. 1.

   any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation

   “friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade”

   Broaderequipment

Questions about stock-in-trade

What does stock-in-trade mean?

stock-in-trade means "any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation".

How many syllables are in stock-in-trade?

stock-in-trade has 3 syllables: stoc-k-in--trade. The stress falls on "stoc".

Is stock-in-trade a common word?

stock-in-trade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.