stocktakingn.
a. A periodical examination, inventorying, and valuation of the stock or goods in a shop, warehouse, etc.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > stock > stock-taking
stocktaking1858
stocktake1972
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-taking.
1861 Draper & Clothier III. 94/2 At Nottingham, the large houses have been engaged in stock taking.
1884 Manch. Examiner 14 Oct. 4/4 The stocktaking of this company..was made on Saturday.
b. figurative.
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1884 R. W. Church Bacon 82 He sat down to make a minute stock-taking of his position and its circumstances.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Apr. 11/1 The theological stocktaking with which this closing part of the century is busy.
Derivatives
ˈstocktake v. [as a back-formation]
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > keep shop or work in shop > stock-take
stocktake1892
1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 304 He would go over two or three times a year to stock-take and make up accounts.
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