Inventory

Quick meaning: Inventory is a noun meaning (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

Meaning

(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

More Meanings

1. (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
2. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
3. A space containing the items available to a character, especially in a video game, for immediate use.
4. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
5. (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

Example Sentences

This month's inventory took nearly three days.

Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.

Word Forms

• inventories
• inventorying
• inventoried

Synonyms for inventory

Depending on context, synonyms include index, inventorize, stock, armory, stocktaking, armoury.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stocktaking, stock, armory, armoury, stocktake, registry.

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