stockkeeping
English
Noun
stockkeeping (uncountable)
- Stock control.
- Coordinate terms: storekeeping, bookkeeping
- 1921, “[epigraph]”, in Hugo Diemer, Meyer Bloomfield, Daniel Bloomfield, Everett Francis Dahm, editors, The Foreman as Stockkeeper: The Ninth Work Manual, Modern Foremanship and Production Methods: Being the Expression of Practical Foremen (Work manual of the Modern Foremanship course)[1], volume 9, La Salle Extension University:
- Stockkeeping is merely an industrial application of the old proverb: "A place for everything and everything in its place."
- Livestock husbandry.
- Near-synonym: stockraising