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inv

inv is the abbreviation of invoice.

inv is the abbreviation of inventory.

Meaning of invoice

Noun

invoice (plural invoices)

  1. A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
    • I've already rendered the invoices for payment.
  2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
    • The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
    Synonyms:
    shipment
  3. (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
  4. (Taiwan) A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket.

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Meaning of inventory

Noun

inventory (plural inventories)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
    • This month's inventory took nearly three days.
  4. 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.
  5. (especially) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
    • Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

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Questions about inv

What is inv the abbreviation of?
Inv is the abbreviation of invoice.

Words near inv in the dictionary

  1. Inuttut
  2. Inuvialuit
  3. Inuvialuktun
  4. Inuvik
  5. inuysybel
  6. inv
  7. Inv.
  8. invacuate
  9. invacuated
  10. invacuates
  11. invacuating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inv (page history and authors); invoice (page history and authors); inventory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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