1. take stock - Verb
2. take stock - Phrase
make or include in an itemized record or report
to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Source: WordNetA very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. E. O. Wilson
To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will. Isaac Bashevis Singer
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. David Trimble
Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. Julie Walters
I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it. Dave Matthews