Definition of Inventory

1. Verb. Make or include in an itemized record or report. "Inventory all books before the end of the year"

Exact synonyms: Stock-take, Take Stock
Generic synonyms: List
Derivative terms: Inventorying

2. Noun. A detailed list of all the items in stock.
Exact synonyms: Stock List
Generic synonyms: List, Listing
Terms within: Inventory Item
Specialized synonyms: Parts Inventory

3. Noun. The merchandise that a shop has on hand. "They stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"
Exact synonyms: Stock
Generic synonyms: Merchandise, Product, Ware
Derivative terms: Stock, Stock, Stockist

4. Noun. (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods.
Category relationships: Accounting
Generic synonyms: Register

5. Noun. A collection of resources. "He dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"
Exact synonyms: Armory, Armoury
Generic synonyms: Imagination, Resource, Resourcefulness

6. Noun. Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand. "They held an inventory every month"
Exact synonyms: Inventorying, Stock-taking, Stocktaking
Generic synonyms: Itemisation, Itemization, Listing
Specialized synonyms: Stock-take, Stocktake

Definition of Inventory

1. n. An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.

2. v. t. To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

Definition of Inventory

1. Noun. (context: operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business ¹

2. Noun. (context: operations) a detailed list of all of the items on hand ¹

3. Noun. (context: operations) the process of producing or updating such a list ¹

4. Verb. (transitive operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inventory

1. [v -RIED, -RYING, -RIES]

Medical Definition of Inventory

1. A detailed, often descriptive, list of items. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventory

inventive
inventively
inventiveness
inventivenesses
inventor
inventorial
inventorially
inventoried
inventories
inventorize
inventorized
inventorizes
inventorizing
inventors
inventorship
inventory (current term)
inventory-clearance sale
inventory accounting
inventory control
inventory item
inventory management
inventorying
inventoryless
inventour
inventress
inventresses
inventrices
inventrix
invents
inveracity

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