Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “take stock of“ and its meaning is “to review a situation carefully, usually before making a decision; assess, reassess, weigh up, appraise, evaluate, look carefully at”.
Example Sentence: Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu has played a significant role in democratising the public space for wider participation. As emphasised by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin recently, social justice has been the integral part of the Dravidian development model… It is imperative for the Tamil Nadu government to release a white paper on reservations in Tamil Nadu to take stock of changes that have happened in the social composition of employees in the government sector after the year 2000.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Revisiting social justice under the Dravidian model and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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