Stock-taker (Noun)
Meaning
An employee whose job is to take inventory; "an outside stocktaker had to be hired".
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The annual audit required the company to hire an outside stock-taker to assess its inventory.
- As the new stock-taker, she was responsible for counting and reporting the quantities of all items in the warehouse.
- The stock-taker discovered discrepancies between the company's records and the actual stock on hand.
- In that role, a stock-taker must be meticulous and accurate in their counts to ensure the records are up-to-date.
- Before being promoted, she had worked as a stock-taker in the company's warehouse for five years.