stocktaking

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Ultimately this element of the project was dropped and the system was rolled out in 1999 for tasks like accounting and stocktaking instead.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2024

The report is the fifth annual stocktaking on food insecurity and hunger by U.N. agencies including the FAO, UNICEF, World Health Organization and World Food Program.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

The WTO's main body the General Council met on Thursday behind closed-doors for a "stocktaking" session before the conference.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2022

A stocktaking plenary with Cop26 president Alok Sharma is due to start at 12pm, where we’ll find out how countries feel about the draft text published this morning and what changes they want to see.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2021

About the time of Matthew Arnold’s ‘Friendship’s Garland,’ and since that time there’s been nothing like a systematic stocktaking of the English-speaking mind—until the Encyclopædist reported ‘no effects.’

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)