inventory

English

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Etymology

From Old French inventoire (French inventaire), from Late Latin inventarium

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛn.tɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.vən.tɔ.ɹi/

Noun

inventory (plural inventories)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list

   This month's inventory took nearly three days.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:list

Related terms

• invent
• invented
• inventive
• invention
• inventor
• reinvent

Translations

stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫存, 库存 (zh) (kùcún), 儲存, 储存 (zh) (chúcún)

• Esperanto: inventaro
• Finnish: tavaraluettelo
• French: inventaire (fr) m
• German: Inventar (de) n, Lager (de) n

• Italian: scorta (it)
• Japanese: 在庫 (ja) (ざいこ, zaiko)
• Portuguese: existência (pt) f, inventário (pt)
• Russian: инвентарь (ru) m (inventárʹ), запасы (ru) m pl (zapásy)
• Spanish: inventario (es) m
• Swedish: lager (sv) n, inventarier (sv) pl

detailed list of all of the items on hand

• Czech: inventář m
• Esperanto: inventaro
• Finnish: tavaraluettelo, pesäluettelo
• Galician: inventario m
• German: Inventar (de) n

• Italian: inventario
• Portuguese: inventário (pt) m
• Russian: реестр (ru) m (rejéstr)
• Spanish: inventario (es) m
• Swedish: inventarieförteckning c, lagersaldo n, inventering (sv) c

process of producing or updating such a list

• Czech: inventura f
• Finnish: inventointi
• Galician: inventario m
• German: Inventur (de) f
• Italian: inventario
• Portuguese: inventário (pt) m

• Russian: инвентаризация (ru) f (inventarizácija), опись (ru) f (ópisʹ), переучёт (ru) m (pereučót), учёт (ru) m (učót)
• Serbo-Croatian: попис m (popis)
• Spanish: inventario (es) m
• Swedish: inventering (sv) c

Verb

inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• (take stock): index

Translations

to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory

• Finnish: inventoida
• Galician: inventariar

• Spanish: inventariar
• Swedish: inventera (sv)

External links

• inventory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• inventory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911