Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reappraisal of a situation, a person, or one's own position or prospects.
- noun The act or process of inventorying merchandise or the supplies on hand.
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- noun the act of taking an
inventory ofmerchandise etc. - noun the
reappraisal of asituation or of one'sprospects
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook
- noun making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
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Examples
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To meet the mid-1998 deadline, South Africa and the EU agreed to convene a "stocktaking" ministerial meeting early in February to review progress made so far in negotiations.
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She had dropped unconsciously into her "stocktaking" attitude.
Tommy and Co. 1893
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Nevertheless, the "stocktaking" week kicked off on Monday morning with a formal meeting of the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) - essentially the organisation's full membership.
ICTSD Paige McClanahan 2010
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The WTO's week-long "stocktaking" of the Doha Round trade talks ended on Friday with a whimper, not bang.
ICTSD Paige McClanahan 2010
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Matus described the outcome on 'stocktaking' as remarkable, given that the conference was not officially intended to produce any forward movement in the Doha talks.
ICTSD 2009
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"stocktaking" took place on Tuesday, giving keepers a chance to
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In the first few pages we see only the accountacy of Sumerian scribes, stocktaking and contracts.
Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009
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The stocktaking session lasted two hours and focused on the chances of hastening a reconciliation between the Taliban and the Karzai government.
No decision on speeding up Afghan troop withdrawal in 2013 2011
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Busan is a stocktaking exercise but also an attempt to build on those principles and to bring in the new players into a common framework.
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In the first few pages we see only the accountacy of Sumerian scribes, stocktaking and contracts.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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