stocktaking

IPA: stˈɑkteɪkɪŋ

stock-taking

IPA: stˈɑkteɪkɪŋ

Stock-taking or "inventory checking" or "wall-to-wall" is the physical verification of the quantities and condition of items held in an inventory or warehouse.

A stocktaking after the end of the utopias.
Stocktaking today, so my hair trigger is set finer that usual.
She had dropped unconsciously into her "stocktaking" attitude.
"stocktaking" took place on Tuesday, giving keepers a chance to
After two year the Library conducts a stocktaking in the month of August.
In the first few pages we see only the accountacy of Sumerian scribes, stocktaking and contracts.
The WTO's week-long "stocktaking" of the Doha Round trade talks ended on Friday with a whimper, not bang.
Busan is a stocktaking exercise but also an attempt to build on those principles and to bring in the new players into a common framework.
The stocktaking session lasted two hours and focused on the chances of hastening a reconciliation between the Taliban and the Karzai government.
Matus described the outcome on 'stocktaking' as remarkable, given that the conference was not officially intended to produce any forward movement in the Doha talks.
To meet the mid-1998 deadline, South Africa and the EU agreed to convene a "stocktaking" ministerial meeting early in February to review progress made so far in negotiations.
Nevertheless, the "stocktaking" week kicked off on Monday morning with a formal meeting of the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) - essentially the organisation's full membership.

There will be a stock-taking process, Mr. Amano said.
SOTU: Rice on Iran - ‘We will do a stock-taking in September’
Yes, due diligence, but more importantly a stock-taking of what people really need vs. who can give that to them
Equally compelling is the novel's grasp of the spiritual stock-taking that follows large-scale disasters, manmade or otherwise.
That kind of stock-taking and forward planning was in fact an underlying idea behind a three-day high-level event that took place at the United Nations in late September.
But if the accounts recently published by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker and by Peter Baker in tomorrow's New York Times Magazine can be believed, the stock-taking at the White House has hardly begun.