Inventory
noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 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."
- 2 making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 the merchandise that a shop has on hand wordnet
- 5 The process of producing or updating such a list.
"This month's inventory took nearly three days."
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- 6 a collection of resources wordnet
- 7 A space containing the items available to a character, especially in a video game, for immediate use.
"You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory."
- 8 a detailed list of all the items in stock wordnet
- 9 The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.) especially
"Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories."
- 10 (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods wordnet
- 1 To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory. transitive
"The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary."
- 2 make or include in an itemized record or report wordnet
Example
More examples"After inventory, there was a net balance of three hundred pesos."
Etymology
From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).