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Take Stock

Definition: Take Stock

Take Stock

Verb

1. To look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail: "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror.".

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


Synonyms: Take Stock

Synonyms: scrutinise (v), scrutinize (v), size up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Take Stock

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Accounts

Verb: keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over; take stock; balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts; make accounts square, square accounts.

Attention

Examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize, consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on, rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on, devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business.

Numeration

Check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix numbers to, page.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Take Stock

English words defined with "take stock": To take stock in. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Take Stock

DomainTitle

Books

  • Corporate Europe: Take Stock and Remain Cautious [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Planning a New Career: How to Take Stock, Change Course and Secure a Better Future for Yourself (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Take Stock

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Take stock in America : buy U.S. Savings Bonds & Freedom Shares. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Expressions: Take Stock

Expressions using "take stock": take stock of To take stock To take stock in To take stock of. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Take Stock

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

Albanian

  

vështroj me vëmendje, kontrolloj (check, control, examine, go through, guard, inspect, look over, make certain, master, perambulate, peruse, probe, ransack, review, revise, search, superintend, supervise, take charge of, verify, watch), analizoj (analyse, analyze, assay, break down, dissect, sift, survey, test). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جرد البضائع, ‏أقام الحساب, ‏أحصى المخزون. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разглеждам критично (scrutinize), правя преглед (recap), инвентаризирам (calendar, inventory). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dìlat inventuru. (various references)

   

French

  

évaluer les mérites de. (various references)

   

German

  

Inventur machen (stocktake, to take inventory, to take stock). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατανοώ (appreciate, come to terms with, comprehend, make head or tail of, understand). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעשות חשבון (make up an account, reckon, score, square up), לספור מלאי (stocktake). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leltároz (assess, inventory, to inventory, to take stock). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay ockstay

   

Romanian

  

face inventarul (inventorize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

учесть (take into account, take into consideration), учитывать (allow for, bear in mind, bear in view, give account, make allowance for, reckon in, take account of), производить переучет. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer inventario (stocktake). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sayım yapmak (take a census, tally), malları saymak, durum değerlendirmesi yapmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

критично оцінювати сво" становище, підбивати підсумки. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Take Stock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-k-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: costate, tackets.

-3 letters: casket, costae, cottae, cottas, octets, socket, stacte, tacket.

-4 letters: ascot, cakes, caste, cates, cesta, coast, coats, cokes, coset, costa, cotes, cotta, escot, kecks, octet, scatt, skate, stack, stake, state, steak, stoae, stoat, stock, stoke, taces, tacet, tacks, tacos, tacts, takes, taste, tates, teaks, teats, tecta, testa, toast, toeas, tokes, totes.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-k-o-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: ticktacktoes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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