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单词 stock-in-trade
释义

stock-in-traden.

Forms: Also † stock of trade (obsolete).
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstock-in-trade.
a. The goods kept on sale by a dealer, shopkeeper, or pedlar. Also, a workman's tools, appliances, or apparatus.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun]
tacklea1325
enginea1393
geara1400
workhorse1463
graith1513
trinketc1525
implementsa1552
furniture1577
store1605
tew1616
thing1662
stock-in-trade1775
tack1777
apparatus1796
work thing1812
gearinga1854
matériel1856
plant1867
hardware1947
workhorse1949
society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > stock
stuff1560
stock1696
stock-in-trade1775
1666 A. Marvell Let. 13 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 45 Cattell Corn, & Houshold furniture shall be excepted and all such stock for trade as is already taxed by the Land tax.]
1775 Pennsylvania Evening Post 20 June 258/1 To be sold, The Stock in Trade of the late Evan Morgan, deceased.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 214 He retired to Richmond, and..sold part of his plates and stock in trade by auction.
1851 G. Borrow Lavengro III. xix. 235–6 She..died, leaving me her cart and stock in trade.
b. transferred and figurative (esp. of mental equipment and resources). Also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] > theory of knowledge, system
system1615
theory?1634
philosophy1668
technology1683
scheme1690
stock-in-tradea1806
episteme1842
Wissenschaftslehre1846
epistemics1901
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] > intellectual resources
stock-in-tradea1806
equipment1841
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources
facultya1382
myance?a1513
moyen1547
facility1555
means1560
resource1611
foisona1616
wherewith1674
asset1677
stock-in-tradea1806
wherewithal1809
possibles1823
bag of tricks1841
potential1941
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 174 Men of mean intellects, who, incapable of meddling with the ideal, will operate solely with these mechanical principles, as their entire stock of trade.
1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 2/2 Such charges were the standing material, the stock in trade of every orator.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vii. 274 The conception of plurality was not part of the primary stock-in-trade of mankind.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. i. 7 A whole stock-in-trade of things that a good many girls seem to get on very well without.
1878 J. N. Lockyer Stargazing 233 The stock-in-trade of the modern astronomer.
1910 Q. Rev. Jan. 162 The manual labourer is himself his own stock-in-trade.
attributive.1931 L. H. Myers Prince Jali ii. 26 The point was that his parents and the world each presented the other with something intelligible, they presented stock-in-trade figures between whom a stock-in-trade intercourse was possible.1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 100 These repertoires of traditional songs, stock-in-trade lines and phrases and sudden original words and verses.1977 Word 28 190 Bloomfield discussed such stock-in-trade instances as adder (for nadder), newt (for eft), and apron (for napron), to illustrate one type.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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