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Definition: Take Stock |
Take StockVerb1. 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 StockSynonyms: scrutinise (v), scrutinize (v), size up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Take Stock |
| English words defined with "take stock": To take stock in. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
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. |
| 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 face inventarul (inventorize). (various references) 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) hacer inventario (stocktake). (various references) sayım yapmak (take a census, tally), malları saymak, durum değerlendirmesi yapmak. (various references) критично оцінювати сво" становище, підбивати підсумки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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