If you take stock, you pause to think about all the aspects of a situation or event before deciding what to do next. It was time to take stock of the situation. I was forty, the age when people take stock and change their lives. Synonyms: review the situation, weigh up, appraise, estimate More Synonyms of take stock. More @Wikipedia
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