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/ɪnˈvɛn.tə.ɹi/ · in·ven·to·ry
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.
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Did you know? The term inventory originally referred to a medieval king's list of possessions, derived from Latin inventarium meaning ‘a list of things found’.