inventory

About 14.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.

2. noun 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. noun The process of producing or updating such a list.

   This month's inventory took nearly three days.

4. noun A space containing the items available to a character, especially 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. noun The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

6. 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.

Similar words

stocktaking stock stock list armory armoury stocktake registry register stockpiling checklist

Often followed by

of and is control management for at in to

Word family

inventorial inventorially inventoried inventories inventorying