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Definition: Stocktaking |
StocktakingNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Synonyms: StocktakingSynonyms: inventory (n), inventorying (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 38.89% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 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) переучет товара, инвентаризация. (various references) popis robe (stock taking), inventarisanje (stock taking). (various references) recuento (count, re count, recount, scrutinizing), inventario (fixtures, inventory), balance (balance, balance sheet, rocking). (various references) inventering (inventory). (various references) stok sayımı, mal sayımı, envanter yapma. (various references) інвентаризація (inventory), критичний перегляд. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stocktaking": stocktakings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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| 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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