stockkeeping

English

Noun

stockkeeping (uncountable)

  1. 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."
  2. Livestock husbandry.
    Near-synonym: stockraising