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The "taking stock of one's surroundings" sense does exist, presumably as an extension of the literal inventory sense, as in e.g. "I looked around and took a quick stocktake of what was going on / who was in the room / etc.". Searches for e.g. "did a quick stocktake" may yield some citations. Sometimes hyphenated. Mihia (talk) 01:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
It seems more of a process (ie, with duration) than an event (ie, a point in time). Perhaps there is confusion because the process takes stock as of a point in time, the end of a financial reporting period. But the process can take days or weeks. DCDuring (talk) 04:21, 28 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Sense #1 calls the counting-up of stock in a store a "process", but the figurative stock-taking of one's surroundings that is the subject of this RFV can be of short duration, e.g. a few seconds or minutes, and is unlikely to last days or weeks, I think. Not that I am arguing that "An event in which ..." is the best possible choice of words -- in fact, probably it isn't. Mihia (talk) 18:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
cited. I have attempted to reword the definition - it is definitely not an event - but there are different senses of what it is, as you can see by the cites - sometimes it is the act of taking stock, sometimes it is the result of that act. Kiwima (talk) 21:20, 28 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
