inventory
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French inventaire, from Late Latin inventorium, from Latin inventarium
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
inventory (plural inventories)
- (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.
- (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.
- (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
- This month's inventory took nearly three days.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:list
[edit] Related terms
[edit] Translations
stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
|
|
detailed list of all of the items on hand
|
|
process of producing or updating such a list
|
|
[edit] Verb
inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)
- (transitive, operations) 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.
[edit] Synonyms
- (take stock): index
[edit] Translations
to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory
|
|
[edit] External links
- inventory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- inventory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
