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take inventory

take inventory verb: to compile an inventory.

Verb

take inventory (third-person singular simple present takes inventory, present participle taking inventory, simple past took inventory, past participle taken inventory)

  1. (intransitive, often, with-of) To compile an inventory.
    • […] she sent the next day a Charge to the Provest and Bayliffs, and to her owne great Treasurer, to passe to the houses of the said foure men, and likewise to their Booths or Shops, and there to take Inventory of all their Goods and Chattells […]1644, John Knox, David Buchanan, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, London: George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, Book 5, p
    • She swapped the rose beige dress for an apron, and took inventory of the ice box.1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 17, in Red Harvest
  2. (intransitive, often, with-of) to assess a situation
    Synonyms:
    take stock

Synonyms of take inventory

Forms of take inventory

third-person singular presenttakes inventory
present participletaking inventory
pasttook inventory
past participletaken inventory

Questions about take inventory

What does take inventory mean?
Take inventory means to compile an inventory.
What part of speech is take inventory?
Take inventory is a verb.
What is the past tense of take inventory?
The past tense of take inventory is took inventory.

Words near take inventory in the dictionary

  1. take in hand
  2. take in turn
  3. take in water
  4. take into account
  5. take into consideration
  6. take inventory
  7. take issue to
  8. take issue with
  9. take it
  10. take it away
  11. take it easy

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