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.
Examples of "stocktaking" in Sentences
- 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.