take stock

Meanings

verbtake stock (third-person singular simple present takes stock, present participle taking stock, simple past took stock, past participle taken stock)

present singular third person takes stock · participle present taking stock · past took stock · participle past taken stock

To take inventory, especially at the end of a season in a store or business.
Synonyms: take inventory
idiomaticTo scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation.
"But from time to time, all organisations need to take stock of what they do and why they do it.
2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 39
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At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
1882, Leslie Stephen, The Science of Ethics
In 2009, he underwent heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, an event that Mr. Williams said caused him to take stock of his life.
2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times
[…]and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.
2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:53 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022