单词 | to take stock of |
释义 | > as lemmasto take stock of b. take stock n. In commercial use, to make an inventory of the merchandise, furniture, etc. in one's own (rarely in another's) possession, recording its quantity and present value. Hence figurative, to make a careful estimate of one's position with regard to resources, prospects, or the like. to take stock of: to reckon up, evaluate; also colloquial, to scrutinize (a person) with suspicion or interest. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > estimate [verb (intransitive)] deemc1384 to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 counta1400 thinka1400 reputatec1450 reckon1567 weigh1573 repute1579 esteem1583 censure1592 take stock1736 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > with regard to resources mustera1640 to take stock of1864 1736 Country Jrnl. or Craftsman 14 Aug. [Innkeeper to Exciseman.] Goodmorrow..Mr. Gage... I hope you have no Information against Me... Did you not take Stock but last Night? 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 186 How vague and general these [thoughts] are even on objects of Sense, the few who at a mature age have seriously set about the discipline of their faculties, and have honestly taken stock, best know by recollection of their own state. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 19 It may therefore be worth while at this commencement of a new year for us to balance accounts with our readers, and, in the trader's phrase, to ‘take stock’. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. ⁋7 The business of the servant of the Company was not, as now, to conduct the judicial, financial, and diplomatic business of a great country, but to take stock [etc.]. 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xv. 226 One day, being at a place called the Escurial, I took stock, as the tradesmen say, and found I possessed the sum of eighty dollars won by playing at cards. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) To take stock of one, to scrutinize narrowly one whom you have reason to suspect. 1867 W. Johnson in Farrar Ess. Lib. Educ. (1867) 333 You will find the historian taking stock of human knowledge for the end of the Middle Ages. ?1881 Suppl. Voyle's Mil. Dict. 36/2 A combatant officer appointed to ‘take stock’, either at home or abroad, is entitled to receive extra pay of 5s. a day. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. i. 166 It is, perhaps,..occasionally well to take stock of our mental experience. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird ii How is it that you who are so sharp could not contrive to spot him when you took stock of the passengers? 1893 Times 30 May 9/3 It is always the custom with practical politicians to take stock of what has been done..and what can be done. 1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 158/2 A narrow squint window at the back of one of them enabled its occupant to take stock of any one who might knock at the door of his neighbour. < as lemmas |
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