stocktaker

1. 1.

   an employee whose job is to take inventory

   “an outside stocktaker had to be hired”

   Synonymsstock-taker

   Broaderemployee

Other forms of stocktaker

plural

stocktakers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stocktaker

What does stocktaker mean?

stocktaker means "an employee whose job is to take inventory".

How many syllables are in stocktaker?

stocktaker has 3 syllables: stock-ta-ker. The stress falls on "stock".

What is another word for stocktaker?

Close synonyms include stock-taker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stocktaker a common word?

stocktaker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.