📦 A goods count 📦 To count goods

stock-take

1 4.4

Counting and checking the goods a shop or warehouse has

noun
/ˈstɑkˌteɪk/

: inventario

Before the holiday sales, the store conducted a thorough stock-take of its merchandise.

Examples

The manager scheduled a stock-take to ensure all items were accounted for in the inventory.
We need to perform a stock-take to determine what items need to be reordered.
Anyway, he was allowed to stay in the shop at the corner to do the stock take an hour after everybody else.
Anyway, he was allowed to stay in the shop at the corner to do the stock take an hour after everybody else.

Synonyms

inventorying

vsstock-take

1 4.6

Making a detailed list of the goods a business has on hand

covers a single inventory count rather than creating a full itemized record

stocktake

vsstock-take

1 4.9

An act of counting and checking the goods and materials a business has

is the same action but often written with a hyphen

stocktaking

vsstock-take

4.6

Counting and recording all the goods and materials a business has

is about one specific counting event rather than the whole process

stock-taking

vsstock-take

3.6

A detailed count of the goods a shop or business has

refers to one occurrence of counting rather than the general procedure

How Thorough

inventory accounting

Specialized

1 5.2

stock list

1 3.4

stock-take

1 4.4

to count

∞ 1.0

spot check

6 3.6

Surface Forms

stock-take singular

stock-takes plural

Morphology

stock-take = stock + take (transparent) = stock + take

The meaning 'an inventory count' is directly built from the components 'stock' + 'take' and is easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Stock-take comes from stock meaning 'goods' or 'supply' and take meaning 'to take' or 'to count'. So a stock-take is literally taking the stock — counting and checking what a shop or warehouse has.