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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Stock

Let's take stock of what has been done up to now.

What does "stock" exactly mean in the sentence above?
  

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Anonymous What does "stock" exactly mean in the sentence above? the store of products on the shelves and available for sale That didn't help, did it? That's because 'to take stock' is an idiom.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous What does "stock" exactly mean in the sentence above?
  • the store of products on the shelves and available for sale That didn't help, did it?
  • That's because 'to take stock' is an idiom.
  • It means "to see what we have now", though literally it means to take inventory (for accounting purposes in a business enterprise).
  • CJ
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AnonymousWhat does "stock" exactly mean in the sentence above?
the store of products on the shelves and available for sale

That didn't help, did it?

That's because 'to take stock' is an idiom. It means "to see what we have now", though literally it means to take inventory (for accounting purposes in a business enterprise).

CJ
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CalifJimthe store of products on the shelves and available for saleThat didn't help, did it?
Indeed, it didn't. It's hard (for a non-native) to 'extract' an idiomatic expression, especially when under the entry "stock", in my very much trusted dictionary, there is nothing about that useful idiom.
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Anonymousespecially when under the entry "stock", in my very much trusted dictionary, there is nothing about that useful idiom.
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Thank you, CJ, for the reply and useful link.
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