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inventories

inventories is the plural of inventory.

inventories is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inventory.

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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Phrases with inventories

Questions about inventories

What is inventories the plural of?
Inventories is the plural of inventory.

Words near inventories in the dictionary

  1. inventoresses
  2. inventoriable
  3. inventorial
  4. inventorially
  5. inventoried
  6. inventories
  7. inventorisation
  8. inventorise
  9. inventorised
  10. inventorises
  11. inventorising

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