inventory

Pluralinventories

Formsinventories, inventorying, inventoried

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The amount of goods a store or business has ready to sell or use.

   Like the food a kitchen keeps in its pantry, ready to cook.

   The store keeps a large inventory of winter coats.

   We ran low on inventory before the holiday rush.

   Similarstock, supply, merchandise, goods, stockpile

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A full list that shows every item a place has on hand.

   Like a shopping list that shows everything already in the cupboard.

   The manager printed the inventory to check what was missing.

   Every item on the inventory had a barcode.

   Similarlist, catalog, register, record, manifest

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The job of counting items and writing down what a place has.

   Like checking and writing down everything in your room before a move.

   The store closes one day a year for inventory.

   Staff stayed late to finish the inventory.

   Similarstocktaking

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4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To count and list all the items a place has.

   Like checking your backpack and writing down everything inside.

   We inventory the shelves every Friday night.

   Staff inventory all the tools before locking up.

   Similarcount, catalog, itemize, list, record

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   The set of items a character is carrying in a video game, ready to use.

   Like a backpack that holds everything you have picked up so far.

   He opened his inventory to find a health potion.

   My inventory was full, so I dropped the old sword.

6. 6
   nouncountable

   The complete set of one kind of feature in a language, such as all its sounds.

   Like a complete list of all the building blocks a language uses.

   Hawaiian has a small inventory of sounds compared to English.

   Each language has its own inventory of vowels.

   Similarsystem, repertoire

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