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stock in trade
noun as in materials or resources used to run a business
Example Sentences
Promises on immigration have been the stock in trade for the last 15 years of UK politics.
Lawyerly justifications of Trump’s bogus claims are Vance’s stock in trade, but he doesn’t appear to have used the phrase directionally correct himself.
Anslinger was one of the greatest con men of that century, and racist canards were his stock in trade.
As a fighter whose stock in trade is the knockout, British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley feels he can't criticise people for craving a spectacle he very much wants to supply.
Football commentator Martin Tyler's voice is his stock in trade.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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