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Stocktaking

Definition: Stocktaking

Stocktaking

Noun

1. Reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook.

2. Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "the inventory took two days".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Stocktaking

DomainDefinition

Economics

Periodical valuation of all goods on hand in a business so that they may be taken into account when balacing the books. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Stocktaking

Synonyms: inventory (n), inventorying (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Stocktaking

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lifelong Education, a Stocktaking (reference)

  • Sociology of the Middle East: A Stocktaking and Interpretation (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia , No 1) (reference)

  • Swidden Cultivation in Asia: Content Analysis of the Existing Literature: A Stocktaking Exercise (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Stocktaking

"Stocktaking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "Stocktaking" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)44.44%8124,375
Lexical Verb (-ing form)38.89%7133,076
Noun (proper)11.11%2245,945
Noun (common)5.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%18N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stocktaking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stocktaking uk

9

services stocktaking

8

services stocktaking uk

8

retail stocktaking

7

ashbys been have national providing stocktakers stocktaking

6

inventory stocktaking

6

stocktaking

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stocktaking

Language Translations for "stocktaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

inventarizim, inventar (inventory, stockpile). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تقييم الوضع, ‏عملية الجرد (inventory), ‏جرد المخزون (stocktake). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

критически анализ на събития, критически преглед на политика, проверка на стока, проверка на инвентар, проверка на доставка, преоценка на ценности. (various references)

   

Czech

  

inventura (stock taking). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

controle (audit, check, check out, control, monitoring, review, verification). (various references)

   

French

  

inventaire (stocking). (various references)

   

German

  

Bestandsaufnahme (inventory, stock taking, stock-check). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καταγραφή εμπορευμάτων (inventory). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ערכת מצב (appreciation of situation), ספירת מלאי. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

folyamatos leltározás (perpetual stocktaking). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inventario (fixtures, inventory, list, schedule). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

店卸し (inventory). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たなおろし (fault finding, inventory, taking inventory). (various references)

   

Manx

  

leaghal sthock, leaghal, coontey sthock (stocktake). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocktakingstay

   

Portuguese

  

registro (account book, adjustment fire, book, cartulary, enrollment, enrolment, entry, filing, gate, inventory, ledger, list, meter, record, recording, register, registration, registry, regulator, roster), inventário (inventory, list, schedule, scroll). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

переучет товара, инвентаризация. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

popis robe (stock taking), inventarisanje (stock taking). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recuento (count, re count, recount, scrutinizing), inventario (fixtures, inventory), balance (balance, balance sheet, rocking). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inventering (inventory). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

stok sayımı, mal sayımı, envanter yapma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

інвентаризація (inventory), критичний перегляд. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Stocktaking

Derivations

Words beginning with "stocktaking": stocktakings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Stocktaking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-k-n-o-s-t-t"

-3 letters: agnostic, coasting, coatings, goatskin, oscitant, scatting, stacking, stocking, stotinka, tactions, toasting.

-4 letters: actings, actions, agonist, anticks, atonics, casking, casting, cations, catkins, catting, coating, costing, gitanos, gnostic, kations, octants, sacking, skating, soaking, socking, staking, stating, station, stoking, tacking, taction, takings, tasking, tasting.

-5 letters: acting, actins, action, agonic, antick, antics, asking, atonic, attics, caking, cantos.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-k-n-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: stocktakings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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