inventory
/ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/US/ˈɪn.vənˌtɔɹ.i/
inventory noun: the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
Noun
inventory (plural inventories)
- 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.
- 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.
- The process of producing or updating such a list.
- This month's inventory took nearly three days.
- 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.
- From the inventory tab you have the option to use the mobile phone or check out gadgets you have collected.2008, “PDA”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 11
- The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
- Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.
- Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270
Verb
inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)
- 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.
- ‘Now,’ said Jethro, ‘we’re inventorying all the stock today, do you want to lend a hand?’2024, Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story, Hodder & Stoughton, page 235
- Synonyms:
- index, inventorize, take inventory, take stock
inventory meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
inventory in Hindi
- इन्वेंट्री, इन्वेंटरी, इन्वेंट्री में
inventory in Tamil
- கணக்கெடுப்பு, இருப்புக் கணக்கு, சரக்குகளின் விவரப்பட்டியல்
inventory in Marathi
- मालसाठा, इन्व्हेंटरीमध्ये
inventory in Urdu
- فرد, فہرست, سامان کا ذخیرہ
More languagesFewer languages
- inventory in Bengali
- জায়, বর্ণনামূলক তালিকা
- inventory in Telugu
- ఇన్వెంటరీ
- inventory in Malayalam
- ചരക്കുപട്ടിക, പട്ടികസാമാനങ്ങൾ, മരിച്ച ആളുടെ സ്വത്തുവിവരം, ആസ്തിവിവരപ്പട്ടിക
- inventory in Kannada
- ತಪಶೀಲು ಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಪಟ್ಟಿ, ವಸ್ತುಗಳ ವಿವರ, ಯಾದಿ
- inventory in Gujarati
- ઇન્વેન્ટરી, ઈન્વેન્ટરી, ઇન્વેન્ટરીમાં
- inventory in Odia
- ଇନଭେଣ୍ଟରୀ, ଇନଭେଣ୍ଟୋରୀ, ଇନଭେଣ୍ଟରି
- inventory in Nepali
- इन्भेन्टरी, इन्भेन्ट्री, इन्भेन्ट्रीमा
- inventory in Tagalog
- talatinggalan
- inventory in Arabic
- جَرْد jard
- inventory in Malay
- inventori
- inventory in Indonesian
- inventaris
Examples of inventory in a sentence
- This business will fail if it can't move the inventory quickly.
- People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
- We've worked hard to reduce work-in-progress inventory by speeding up production.
Synonyms of inventory
Forms of inventory
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | inventories |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | inventories |
| present participle | inventorying |
| past participle | inventoried |
| past | inventoried |
Origin of inventory
From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).
Words formed from inventory
Phrases with inventory
Questions about inventory
- What does inventory mean?
- Inventory means the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
- What is inventory in Hindi?
- Inventory in Hindi is इन्वेंट्री, इन्वेंटरी, इन्वेंट्री में. See Inventory meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inventory?
- Inventory can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce inventory?
- Inventory is pronounced /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of inventory?
- The plural of inventory is inventories.
Words near inventory in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inventory (page history and authors); inventory (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inventory (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inventory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inventory (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventory (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inventory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inventory (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventory (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventory (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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