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stock-take

stock-take is the alternative spelling of stocktake.

Meaning of stocktake

Noun

stocktake (plural stocktakes)

  1. The process of making an inventory of stock in a store or other location.
    • Patrick Barkham attends the annual stocktake at London Zoo, and things are getting confusing2009 January 8, “The Guardian: G2”, in The Guardian
  2. (UK) The act or process of taking stock of something, or the result of that assessment.
    • Of all GE's journals, this diary most closely documents her processes of composition, and the list of 'Order of Writings' in the front of the book (evidently written in 1876 or'7) provides a stocktake of her career.2000, George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston, The Journals of George Eliot, page 91

Forms of stock-take

pluralstock-takes

Questions about stock-take

What is stock-take the alternative spelling of?
Stock-take is the alternative spelling of stocktake.

Words near stock-take in the dictionary

  1. stock-out
  2. stock-outs
  3. stock-picker
  4. stock-pickers
  5. stock-still
  6. stock-take
  7. stock-takes
  8. stock-ticker symbol
  9. stock-ticker symbols
  10. stock-up
  11. stock-ups

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