单词 | stock-in-trade |
释义 | stock-in-traden. a. The goods kept on sale by a dealer, shopkeeper, or pedlar. Also, a workman's tools, appliances, or apparatus. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1775 |
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