The phrase "a stocktake" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in a business context to refer to an inventory check or assessment of goods on hand.
Example: "Before we can proceed with the new orders, we need to conduct a stocktake of our current inventory."
Alternatives: "an inventory check" or "a stock assessment".
How do you perform a stocktake of a nation's cultural power?
Every eight weeks or so, I do a stocktake and re-edit the bathroom cabinet according to what's impressed me and what hasn't.
"As we have daylight, we can use the military assets we have and others to get a stocktake of the actual damage".
After 9/11, on the morning the Prime Minister was departing for Washington, we had a stocktake at which he said, "While I'm away I am relying on you to keep standards in schools going up".
The dormouse figures will contribute to the national State of Nature report, a stocktake of UK wildlife that is due to be published by a coalition of conservation and research organisations next week.
The European commission's trade chief, Cecilia Malmström, will meet US trade ambassador Michael Froman in a bid to rescue the TTIP talks at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday described as a "stocktake" of the negotiations so far.
A publication that gives the reader a regular stocktake of what stories it did not publish or did not pursue and why; a publication that only extends the benefits of off-the-record quotes or views appearing in print to sources that genuinely would otherwise face some persecution or payback, not people who are using a cloak of anonymity for their own reasons.
The push is largely a response to an unprecedented stocktake of the country's species in 2013, which revealed that 60% of species studied had declined in recent decades, with more than one in ten at risk of disappearing from the UK altogether.
A critical stocktake is particularly timely now, as 'engaging men' is an increasingly common element in violence prevention work.
Labor leader Bill Shorten and the party's families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin launched a sweeping stocktake of social policy on Wednesday, saying increasing inequality had both a social and economic cost.
In a Department of Heath stocktake, 97% of local councils said they were "fairly or very confident of delivering the changes".
