What is "stocktake"

Usage examples of "stocktake".

She was bored, too, with working in the Upright Small General Dealer, where every Saturday she did the stocktaking and spent hours ticking off items on dog-eared stock lists.

He took two very slow, very careful breaths and did a mental stocktaking of his body, isolating it limb by limb, as Ingold had shown him how.

It is plain that to read and be moved by great ideas and to form good resolutions with no subsequent reminders and moral stocktaking is no enough to keep people in the way of the Open Conspiracy.

Mathison ended his unpleasant stocktaking as he became aware that Nield was now watching him intensely.

Major plucked thoughtfully at the tip of his white imperial as he viewed each frost-gray face in turn with a long, stocktaking glance.

Under Library Keeper before being taken away, and that a stocktaking fine of 2s.

This conclusion was the result of the stocktaking of their assets for self-defense which the Entente Powers had to make when confronted with the growing organization for war of the Central Powers.

In their endless stocktaking of orderly births and deaths her sudden appearance was as jarring an event as a disappearance would have been, the mirror-image of a murder or an abduction.

I planned to ask for volunteer parents at the stocktaking assembly tomorrow.