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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
stocktaking is a noun meaning "reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook". It carries 2 recorded senses.
reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stocktaking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.