take stock
To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation.
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
noun
A store or supply.
A store or supply.
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
A store or supply.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
A store or supply.
The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
A store or supply.
verb
To have on hand for sale.
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
to stock a warehouse with goods
to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'd
To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
adj
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
stock items
stock sizes
Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
He gave me a stock answer.