inventory

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Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/, /ɪnˈvɛn.tə.ɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.vənˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˈɪn.vənˌtɹi/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈven.t(ə).ɹi/, /ˈɪn-/

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.

4. A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.

   You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.

5. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

   • 2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270:

     Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• ad inventory
• benefit of inventory
• bioinventory
• interest inventory
• inventoriable
• inventorial
• inventoryless
• inventory management
• inventory Tetris
• inventory tetris
• noninventory
• overinventoried
• periodic inventory
• perpetual inventory
• personality inventory
• preinventory
• reinventory
• subinventory
• underinventoried

Related terms

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

Translations

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

Albanian: inventar (sq) m Arabic: جَرْد m (jard) Belarusian: інвента́р m (invjentár), запа́сы m pl (zapásy) Bulgarian: инвента́р (bg) m (inventár) Catalan: inventari (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 庫存 / 库存 (zh) (kùcún), 儲存 / 储存 (zh) (chǔcún) Czech: zásoba (cs) f, inventář (cs) m Dutch: voorraad (nl) m, inventaris (nl) m Esperanto: inventaro Finnish: varasto (fi) French: inventaire (fr) m German: Inventar (de) n, Lager (de) n, Vorräte (de) m pl Hebrew: מְלַאי (he) m (mlay) Hungarian: készlet (hu), árukészlet (hu), raktár (hu) (in the phrase raktáron van) Indonesian: inventaris (id) Italian: scorta (it) Japanese: 在庫 (ja) (ざいこ, zaiko) Korean: 재고(在庫) (ko) (jaego) Macedonian: за́лиха f (záliha), инвента́р m (inventár) Malay: inventori Polish: inwentarz (pl) m, zapasy (pl) m pl Portuguese: inventário (pt) m, existências f pl (Portugal) Romanian: inventar (ro) n Russian: инвента́рь (ru) m (inventárʹ), запа́сы (ru) m pl (zapásy) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: инвѐнта̄р m Roman: invèntār (sh) m Slovak: zásoba f, inventár m Slovene: zaloga f Spanish: inventario (es) m Swedish: lager (sv) n, inventarier (sv) pl Tagalog: talatinggalan Turkish: envanter (tr) Ukrainian: інвента́р m (inventár), запа́си m pl (zapásy) Uyghur: زاپاس (zapas), قالدۇق (qalduq), ئامبار زاپىسى (ambar zapisi), خەزىنە قالدۇقى (xezine qalduqi), ئىسكىلات قالدۇقى (iskilat qalduqi)

detailed list of all of the items on hand

Belarusian: рэе́стр m (rejéstr), спіс m (spis), пералі́к m (pjeralík) Bulgarian: о́пис (bg) m (ópis) Catalan: inventari (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 目錄 / 目录 (zh) (mùlù) Czech: inventář (cs) m Dutch: inventaris (nl) m Esperanto: inventaro Finnish: varastoluettelo, inventaari; pesäluettelo (fi) (of an estate) Galician: inventario (gl) m German: Inventar (de) n, Inventarliste (de) f, Inventarverzeichnis (de) n Hungarian: leltár (hu), kimutatás (hu) Indonesian: inventaris (id) Italian: inventario (it) Japanese: 目録 (ja) (もくろく, mokuroku), 表 (ja) (ひょう, hyō) Korean: 목록(目錄) (ko) (mongnok), 표(表) (ko) (pyo) Latin: inventārium n (Late) Malay: inventori Maori: rārangi taputapu Ottoman Turkish: دفتر (defter), پوصوله (pusula) Polish: inwentarz (pl) m Portuguese: inventário (pt) m Russian: рее́стр (ru) m (rejéstr), спи́сок (ru) m (spísok), пе́речень (ru) m (pérečenʹ), о́пись (ru) f (ópisʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀пис m, инвѐнта̄р m Roman: pòpis (sh) m, invèntār (sh) m Slovak: inventár m Slovene: inventar (sl) m Spanish: inventario (es) m Swedish: inventarieförteckning c, lagersaldo n, inventering (sv) c Tagalog: talatinggalan Turkish: envanter (tr) Ukrainian: реє́стр m (rejéstr), спи́сок (uk) m (spýsok), пере́лік m (perélik)

process of producing or updating such a list

Bulgarian: инвентариза́ция f (inventarizácija) Catalan: inventari (ca) m Czech: inventura (cs) f Dutch: inventariseren (nl) n Esperanto: inventarado Finnish: inventointi (fi) Galician: inventario (gl) m German: Inventur (de) f Hungarian: leltár (hu), leltározás (hu) Italian: inventario (it) Polish: inwentarz (pl) m Portuguese: inventário (pt) m Russian: инвентариза́ция (ru) f (inventarizácija), о́пись (ru) f (ópisʹ), переучёт (ru) m (pereučót), учёт (ru) m (učót) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀пис m Roman: pòpis (sh) m Slovak: inventarizácia f (creating list), inventúra f 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.

   • 2024, Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story, Hodder & Stoughton, page 235:

     ‘Now,’ said Jethro, ‘we’re inventorying all the stock today, do you want to lend a hand?’

Synonyms

• index
• inventorize
• take inventory
• take stock

Translations

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

Bulgarian: инвентаризи́рам impf or pf (inventarizíram) Catalan: inventariar (ca) Dutch: inventariseren (nl) Finnish: inventoida French: inventorier (fr) Galician: inventariar German: Inventur machen Hungarian: leltároz (hu) Portuguese: inventariar (pt), fazer o inventário Russian: инвентаризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (inventarizírovatʹ) Spanish: inventariar (es) Swedish: inventera (sv)

Further reading

• “inventory”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “inventory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inventory”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.