[
UK
/stˈɒkteɪkɪŋ/
]
NOUN
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making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
they held an inventory every month
an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing - reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook
How To Use stocktaking In A Sentence
- Servicing, deliveries, storage, stocktaking and databases are now all part of the process, as are dare I say, health and safety and quality control.
- A new stocktaking system is currently under trial at the supermarket.
- The wide-ranging exercise is believed to have involved stocktaking of products, including food and drinks, an examination of the tax status of employees and the sale of band-related merchandise.
- When he was around I used to help him with the stocktaking and with his gardening and help run the youth club committee.
- It's what makes New Year so bittersweet; an annual stocktaking of personal fortunes that fills the limbo between Christmas and the resumption of normal life in early January.
- Week 52 is traditionally a time for contemplating the success or otherwise of the previous 12 months, but followers of our international football team might just prefer to give the mental stocktaking a miss this time around.
- Methods of stocktaking vary according to the kind of stock records in use.
- The employees walked out in protest against a two-week suspension, without pay, imposed on 19 of their colleagues for refusing to carry out stocktaking after normal hours.
- The Act requires, does it not, that the accounting, as it were, or the stocktaking, using a loose term, be done on that date.
- And while that is going on in the corporate world, as individuals, our personal financial health also needs stocktaking!