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stocktake

(ˈstɒkˌteɪk)
vb (intr) , stocktakes, stocktaking, stocktook or stocktaken
1. (Commerce) to count and check the goods on hand in a shop or business
2. to reassess one's current situation, progress, prospects, etc
n
3. (Commerce) a count and check of goods on hand in a shop or business
4. a reassessment of one's current situation, progress, prospects, etc
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Noun1.stocktake - an instance of stocktaking; "the auditor did not attend the stocktake or check the valuations"
inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking, inventory - making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month"
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<B Squirrel monkeys are counted during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo in central London yesterday.
At the UN Conference on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland, at the end of the year, agreement should be reached on the progress towards delivering a solid set of rules for the future climate governance regime (the 'Paris Agreement Work Programme'), ensuring that the parallel processes foreseen at the Committee of the Parties (COP), namely, the political phase of the Talanoa Dialogue, the pre-2020 stocktake and the High Level event on climate finance are also successful and constructive.
Event host Bernard O'Hara, Director of Risk Consulting at KPMG, said the countdown is on for all organisations "regardless of size or complexity" to be "GDPR ready" before the new European Union rules are implemented on May 25 and advised all businesses to carry out a thorough stocktake of how they hold and process data.
LAHORE -- The education and health stocktake meeting chaired by Chief Minister Punjab through video link was held on Thursday by the Chief Minister's Special Monitoring Unit (SMU).
LAHORE: The education and health stocktake meeting, organised by the Chief Minister's Special Monitoring Unit (SMU), was held on Thursday in which the Department for International Development (DFID) Managing Partner Sir Michael Barber briefed about the progress achieved on roadmaps in the recent years.Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is on a London visit for his medical check-up, participated in the meeting through video link.
For the rest, landfills are under process and their progress was discussed in the stocktake. The waste management companies without landfill sites have temporary disposal sites.
THE cause of a fire which ripped through parts of London Zoo days before Christmas is still unknown, a manager said, as the yearly stocktake gets under way.
Meanwhile, MD PEF Tariq Mahmood has nominated Director (finance) Kamran Hafeez as departmental focal person for upcoming Punjab education reform stocktake.
PROFIT: Stocktake regularly and know your income from every single thing you sell.
Yesterday was the day of the zoo's annual stocktake, counting almost every animal of the 163 species who call the zoo home.
The pact, however, puts in place a review mechanism -- a "global stocktake" -- to ramp up the INDCs every five years."The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement shall undertake its first global stocktake in 2023 and every five years thereafter," the text promises.