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take stock (third-person singular simple present takes stock, present participle taking stock, simple past took stock, past participle taken stock)
- (idiomatic) To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation.
1882, Leslie Stephen, The Science of Ethics:At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:53 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 August 2022:[…] 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.
2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 39:"But from time to time, all organisations need to take stock of what they do and why they do it.
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