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inventory

[in-vuhn-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

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noun

a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.

the objects or items represented on such a list, as a merchant's stock of goods.

the aggregate value of a stock of goods.

raw material from the time of its receipt at an industrial plant for manufacturing purposes to the time it is sold.

a detailed, often descriptive, list of articles, giving the code number, quantity, and value of each; catalog.

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a formal list of movables, as of a merchant's stock of goods.

a formal list of the property of a person or estate.

a tally of one's personality traits, aptitudes, skills, etc., for use in counseling and guidance.

a catalog of natural resources, especially a count or estimate of wildlife and game in a particular area.

10.

the act of making a catalog or detailed listing.

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verb (used with object)

11.

to make an inventory of; enter in an inventory; catalog.

12.

to take stock of; evaluate: to inventory one's life and accomplishments.

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to summarize: to inventory the progress in chemistry.

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to keep an available supply of (merchandise); stock.

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verb (used without object)

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to have value as shown by an inventory: stock that inventories at two million dollars.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English inventorie < Medieval Latin inventōrium; see invent, -tory²

Related forms

in·ven·to·ri·a·ble, adjective

in·ven·to·ri·al, adjective

in·ven·to·ri·al·ly, adverb

o·ver·in·ven·to·ried, adjective

pre·in·ven·to·ry, noun, plural -ries.

Synonyms
5. roster, record, register, account. See list¹.

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Place the date of inventory on all drugs that you're keepin g.

Order, maintain, and inventory supplies and equipment.

Inventory declines often go with a drop in imports, and the fourth quarter was no exception.

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Place the date of inventory on all drugs that you're keepin g.

Order, maintain, and inventory supplies and equipment.

Inventory declines often go with a drop in imports, and the fourth quarter was no exception.

Making a home more eco-friendly should start with a quick inventory of your energy-guzzling appliances.

In recent years, astronomers have found themselves faced with a nagging inventory problem.

There may have been even more, but unless a more complete inventory is found, it is impossible to know.

When it comes to cataloging the earth's inventory of living organisms, it turns out that scientists know relatively little.

Some call it excess capacity, but others say it is greatly needed inventory.

Many different ways exist to do even something as uninspiring as writing software to manage a retail inventory.

The boost from inventory changes will continue to fade, as will the help from federal stimulus.

In the end, finding the perfect accommodations means matching your tastes to the hotel's available room inventory.

We must adapt our resource usage to our available and sustainable inventory.

Objects that you will use your inventory items on are outlined in yellow from time to time to remind you.

So, my next suggestion is to hire on for one of those firms that does inventory.

Many now carry little or no inventory to save money.

The painstaking process enabled the team to separate the human remains and compile an inventory of them.

There is no comprehensive inventory of methane clathrates existing beneath the sea floor.

Its legacy is giant lots stacked with inventory that may never sell.

Maintain a perpetual inventory of all district property.

Inventory arrives on the factory floor only as and when it is needed.

As currently defined, a product's water footprint is an inventory of the total amount of water that goes into its manufacture.

The grand gesture of this new age was to traverse and inventory a continent.

In previous recessions, inventory as a percentage of sales spiked alarmingly.

First, researchers will take an inventory of available open software that is in use or could meet government needs.

The size of a language's phoneme inventory is not at all obvious.

Now their prospects are brightening as the inventory cycle turns and global trade starts to recover.

Business spending also rose, on net, with employment and capital spending edging up but inventory investment slowing.

One big difference is the way retailers are treating inventory.

Firms are also trying to reduce their inventory costs.

One problem is the lack of inventory which can fluctuate over time to cope with changing demand on a daily basis.

Speaking of trade, here is a story about the incredible inventory overhang in shipping.

In open-loop applications, the focus is beginning to shift beyond simple stock-taking and inventory control.

It will take on inventory risk and act as a troubleshooter for small firms.

The rising demand for steel led to a drop of inventory.

They may not be able to run, jump or speak, but they can efficiently move shelves laden with heavy inventory and clean up messes.

The challenges of inventory control as you're living out of a carry-on for a week.

Then, when she has her basic inventory lined up, she adds accessories in.

Housing prices can only get cheaper by next summer, with a buildup of inventory.

Animals are rarely served whole, and innards are not considered worth marketing and have faded from the inventory of edible foods.

So he made an inventory of nesting female turtles at the animals' main.

Home editors and writers scurried to restock inventory through the day.

And they always have to make sure their digital inventory is up on the latest.

We notice the elephants and the kangaroos and the big things, but when you take an inventory of all of the different forms of.

Its computerized, bar-coded inventory system lists the optimum.

If he tipped off a group of his fellow merchants, they could have pulled their inventory out of the vault before the heist.

Creating an inventory of campus or local trees could count as the service-learning project, the foundation says.

Thus, inventory management quickly becomes an annoying, frustrating chore.

But you remain officially tied to the original supervisor, and part of their inventory.

Other indicators suggest that the boost from the inventory restocking cycle may be wearing off.

Khakis and a white oxford-cloth shirt should be in everyone's inventory.

Logistical problems have cost it sales and added to its inventory.

Bar codes are big in retail for management of inventory but also used in other areas such as mail distribution.

These translate into enormous efficiencies: the company manages to shift inventory twice as fast as the industry average.

He tallies up such an thorough inventory of the rebel arsenal that he's practically auditing their quartermasters.

Hatch's former graduate students to take an inventory of the professor's laboratory.

Economic growth will weaken as policy stimulus fades and the inventory cycle tops out.

There could be inventory floating around in storerooms and repair shops.

The damage-report clearly identified the damaged items---by inventory number and name---and specified the damage.

Still, the available inventory keeps growing, including artists' back catalogs.

The spread compensated them for the risk of being landed with unwanted inventory in periods of turbulence.

He has closed underperforming shops, reduced inventory and trimmed debt.

Many of its stores are now shedding inventory in clearance sales.

America's overhang of housing inventory may get worse if concerns over lenders' foreclosure processes jam up sales.

The plunge in manufacturing is in part the result of a huge global inventory adjustment.

But sitting on a big inventory was not good for financial returns.

And the site has capacity for no more than two days of inventory.

Short-term loans to carry inventory and buy raw materials are no longer available.

The whole industry is straining to find ways of making cars to order rather than producing them for inventory.

Inventory control, price negotiations with suppliers, processing patients and financing new equipment are all tricky tasks.

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World English Dictionary

inventory (ˈɪnvəntərɪ, -trɪ)

—n
1.	a detailed list of articles, goods, property, etc
2.	chiefly (US) (often plural) accounting
	a. the amount or value of a firm's current assets that consist of raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods; stock
	b. such assets individually

—vb , -tories, -torying, -toried
3.	(tr) to enter (items) in an inventory; make a list of

[C16: from Medieval Latin inventōrium; see invent]

'inventoriable

—*adj*

inven'torial

—*adj*

inven'torially

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

inventory

early 15c., from M.Fr. inventaire "detailed list of goods," from M.L. inventorium "list of what is found," from L. inventus, pp. of invenire "to find" (see invention). The verb is first recorded c.1600.

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Cultural Dictionary

inventory definition

An itemized list of a firm's goods that have not yet been sold.

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