inventory

Plural: inventories

Noun

• a detailed list of all the items in stock
• 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"
• (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
• a collection of resources
• 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"
• The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
• A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
• The process of producing or updating such a list.
• A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.
• The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

Verb

• make or include in an itemized record or report
  • "Inventory all books before the end of the year"
• To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

Examples

• Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.
• Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.
• The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
• The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.
• This month's inventory took nearly three days.
• You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.

Synonyms

armory, armoury, inventorying, stock, stock list, stock-take, stock-taking, stocktaking, take stock, index, inventorize, take inventory

Related Words

invent, invented, invention, inventive, inventor, reinvent