"take stock" meaning in English

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      "form": "took stock",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1882, Leslie Stephen, The Science of Ethics",
          "text": "At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:53 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 2022-08-19",
          "text": "[…]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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 39",
          "text": "\"But from time to time, all organisations need to take stock of what they do and why they do it.",
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        "To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation."
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          "size up"
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          "assess",
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        "(idiomatic) To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation."
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          "word": "stocktaking"
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        {
          "word": "take inventory"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "inventera"
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  "word": "take stock"
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        "present"
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      "form": "took stock",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times",
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          "text": "[…]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.",
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          "ref": "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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        "(idiomatic) To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation."
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      "word": "inventera"
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