To take stock is to pause and review how things actually stand. Take stock at the year's end.
The phrase comes from counting what a shop actually holds rather than what the book says. To take stock is worth doing when nothing is wrong rather than only when something is.
1phrasetake stockTo pause and review how things actually stand.
“They stopped to take stock after the first six months.”
take stock is a phrase.
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