Stock-taking in a sentence as a noun

Dirty dishes are, if anything, a comfort: the faucet's warm gush serves to stave off the moment of anesthetized stock-taking—Was that really necessary?—in the sobering silence that follows a dinner party.

Stock-taking definitions

noun

reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook

See also: stocktaking

noun

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"

See also: inventory inventorying stocktaking