stocktaking BrE , also: stock-taking BrE
stocktake BrE
inventory AmE **

The last seminar was in 1972 and represented both a stocktaking of the past and a commitment to the future.

The resolution to be adopted by Parliament represents an actual stocktaking of achievements.

As Stocktaking Manager, is in charge of location control.

Cos they'll try and sell it most of it off anyway because they have their stocktaking.

The next item is the stocktaking of the follow-up to the Commission's annual policy strategy for 2005.(1)

Daniel Galbraith was using the security offered by 3,000 acres of gentle pastoral surroundings for his own stocktaking.

During the minicab ride to Josie's place, Lucy did a little mental stocktaking.

What one writer called the "description-passion" seized them and their art in a surprised and joyous stocktaking.

We shall now continue with the debate on the stocktaking of the follow-up to the Commission's Annual Policy Strategy for 2005.

"Stocktaking is now far easier as I now don't have to physically check everything that's listed as unsold.

One shop in the Isle of Man, which never did any stocktaking, unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys.

A detailed stocktaking of the European officers' initial training has been completed, which assists the institutes concerned in identifying partners with whom they organise exchanges.

The Stocktaking (7 Feb 66)

The group uncovered the loss after year-end stocktaking and says it 'results from the deliberate falsification of the company's records.'

More recently, and notably in the paintings that made up his last New York show in 1984, he has undertaken what might be called a symphonic stocktaking.

If you have money and/or goods outstanding, it would be very helpful if these could be returned before the end of June to simplify half-yearly stocktaking.

They are unreadable even to someone who knows Chinese, Mr. Mu has said, but stand as testimony to man's basic need for expression and continuous stocktaking.

The Commission will undertake a fundamental stocktaking of European society, which will serve as a basis for European policy-making into the next decade.

The next item is the statement by the President of the Commission on the stocktaking of the Prodi Commission.

In the immediate term they're determined that there should be no vacuum following publication of the results of the government's stocktaking of the Scottish condition, expected later this month.

This vast stocktaking and forward-planning exercise was commissioned by Richard Luce in 1990, and drawn up with the aid of 44 discussion papers and 3,000 participants.

The WSIS Stocktaking Process is a follow-up to WSIS.

NEW YEAR'S DAY, that occasion of sobered-up stocktaking and resolution, is the diary keeper's true feast day.

WSIS Stocktaking Database has become an effective tool for the exchange of information on the projects in relation to the implementation of the 11 Action Lines.

Guilt had goosed Abby out of bed in time for the weekly stocktaking, but when she reached the kitchen she found Storm preparing a beautiful three-course breakfast for two.

Two and a half years later, its city inventory is 26.

Home inventory is up 14.3 percent from a year ago.

Using the small light again, he took inventory of the large room.

Perhaps you just go, and take inventory along the way.

We went up to his room for me to take the inventory.

They decided to part with about a third of their inventory.

The inventory problem began several years ago in the county.

I would first have to make an inventory, she thought.

Take an inventory, and you could come up with anything.

One way or another, most of my inventory was gone.

Using this inventory, she said, go out and find what you need.

Why did the company let inventory levels get so high?

I have a very particular personal interest in this inventory.

So, here is a new view of process design and inventory control.

It turned out I was the one to take the inventory.

"Do you want to be in here when I make the inventory?"

He took inventory of his body and it was all right.

I'm not really open today, just taking care of inventory.

The city did not even know what it had until officials took an inventory in 1997.

"Our case inventory is building up because we are not working as many cases," he said.

Companies would not be allowed to cut more than 2 percent of their inventory each year.

The region has almost six months of inventory, which is up 35 percent from a year ago.

After all, they reason, inventories around the state are low.

"There is a lot more inventory coming on the market."

That's why making a good guess on inventory is the best he can hope for.