inventory
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin inventarium, from Latin invenire (“to find out”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
inventory (plural inventories)
- (operations) 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.
- (operations) 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.
- (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
- This month's inventory took nearly three days.
- (role-playing games) A space containing the items available to a character for immediate use.
- You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:list
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
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detailed list of all of the items on hand
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process of producing or updating such a list
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VerbEdit
inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)
- (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
- The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory
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Further readingEdit
- inventory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- inventory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911