Inventory
WordNet
noun
(1) Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
"An inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"
"They held an inventory every month"
(2) The merchandise that a shop has on hand
"They carried a vast inventory of hardware"
"They stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"
(3) A collection of resources
"He dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"
(4) A detailed list of all the items in stock
(5) (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
verb
(6) Make or include in an itemized record or report
"Inventory all books before the end of the year"
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Etymology
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Noun
- The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
- Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.
- a detailed list of all of the items on hand
- The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
- the process of producing or updating such a list
- This month's inventory took nearly three days.
Related terms
- invent
- invented
- inventive
- invention
- inventor
- reinvent