stocktaking
IPA: stˈɑkteɪkɪŋ
noun
- the act of taking an inventory of merchandise etc.
- the reappraisal of a situation or of one's prospects
stock-taking
IPA: stˈɑkteɪkɪŋ
Root Word: Stock-taking
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "stocktaking" in Sentences
Examples of "stock-taking" in Sentences
- 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.
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