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stockkeeping

stockkeeping noun: stock control.

Noun

stockkeeping (uncountable)

  1. Stock control.
    • Stockkeeping is merely an industrial application of the old proverb: "A place for everything and everything in its place."1921, “[epigraph]”, in Hugo Diemer, Meyer Bloomfield, Daniel Bloomfield, Everett Francis Dahm, editors, The Foreman as Stockkeeper: The Ninth Work Manual, Modern Foremanship and Production Methods...
  2. Livestock husbandry.
    • Near-synonym: stockraising
    Synonyms:
    stockraising

Synonyms of stockkeeping

Questions about stockkeeping

What does stockkeeping mean?
Stockkeeping means stock control.
What part of speech is stockkeeping?
Stockkeeping is a noun.

Words near stockkeeping in the dictionary

  1. stockjobbings
  2. stockjobs
  3. stockjudging
  4. stockkeeper
  5. stockkeepers
  6. stockkeeping
  7. stocklending
  8. stockless
  9. stocklessness
  10. Stockley
  11. Stockley Hamlet

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