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Definition of Stocktaking
1. Noun. Reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook.
2. Noun. Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand. "They held an inventory every month"
Generic synonyms: Itemisation, Itemization, Listing
Specialized synonyms: Stock-take, Stocktake
Derivative terms: Inventory
Definition of Stocktaking
1. Noun. the act of taking an inventory of merchandise etc. ¹
2. Noun. the reappraisal of a situation or of one's prospects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stocktaking
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stocktaking
Literary usage of Stocktaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library Association Record by Library Association (1906)
"stocktaking is not essentially a modern process, and this is my excuse for
prefacing my brief note with a few remarks on its origin. ..."
2. The Commercial Management of Engineering Works by Francis G. Burton (1899)
"stocktaking.—The great opportunity for testing the accuracy of the account-keeping
of a firm is the yearly or half-yearly stocktaking. ..."
3. Office Organisation and Management Including Secretarial Work by Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Herbert E. Blain (1906)
"stocktaking is probably the most important part of the work which goes to make the
... Not only will an error on stocktaking affect the amount of profit ..."
4. Office Organisation and Management Including Secretarial Work by Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Herbert E. Blain (1914)
"stocktaking is probably the most important part of the work which goes to make the
... Not only will an error on stocktaking affect the amount of profit ..."
5. Process Cost Accounts by Henry Stanley Garry (1908)
"STOCKS AND stocktaking. THE chapters which have already been devoted to the
measurement of solids and liquids contain a variety of points which require to ..."
6. Multiple-shop Accounts by J. Hazelip (1903)
"stocktaking. HAVING dealt with the accounts in so far as they relate to financial
operations, before making up the Trading and Profit and Loss Account, ..."
7. Brewers' and Bottlers' Accounts by Herbert Lanham, W. C. Northcott (1906)
"CHAPTER X. stocktaking. A few points connected with the annual stocktaking may
be found useful. With regard to Stocks, beer in course of manufacture must ..."
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