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Definition: Stock-in-trade |
Stock-in-tradeNoun1. Any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation; "friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Stock-in-trade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.74% of the time. "Stock-in-trade" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.74% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "stock-in-trade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | repertoár (repertoire), raktári készlet (stock in hand, stock on hand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 商売"具 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうばいどうぐ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ock-in-tradestay instalação (accommodation, accumulation, equipment, erection, facility, installation, lodgement, lodging, lodgment, mounting, setting-up, settlement), equipamento (accoutrement, accoutrements, appointments, equipment, fig, fit-out, furniture, gear, habiliment, hardware, materiel, paraphernalia, rig, tackle), aparelhagem (apparatus, equipment, outfit, tackle). (various references) kho (budget, repository, stock, storehouse, yard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-k-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: detractions. | |
-2 letters: anecdotist, carnotites, contrasted, detraction, redactions. | |
-3 letters: adroitest, anoretics, antidotes, astricted, carnotite, catenoids, centroids, coattends, cornetist, crankiest, creations, croakiest, dicentras, dictators, doctrines, interacts, keratotic, ordinates, reactions, redaction, sidetrack, sonicated, stationed, stationer, stockinet, taconites, tetracids, trackside, tractions, transited. | |
-4 letters: aconites, acridest, ancestor, aneroids, anoretic, anticked, antidote, antirock, arointed, asteroid, astonied, attorned, canister, canoeist, carotids. | |
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