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Inventory   /ˌɪnvəntˈɔri/   Listen
Inventory

noun
(pl. inventories)
1.
A detailed list of all the items in stock.  Synonym: stock list.
2.
The merchandise that a shop has on hand.  Synonym: stock.  "They stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"
3.
(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods.
4.
A collection of resources.  Synonyms: armory, armoury.
5.
Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand.  Synonyms: inventorying, stock-taking, stocktaking.  "They held an inventory every month"
verb
(past & past part. inventoried; pres. part. inventorying)
1.
Make or include in an itemized record or report.  Synonyms: stock-take, take stock.



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"Inventory" Quotes from Famous Books



... is in danger of wrecking both happiness and character. All such misfits are fatal. No farmer harnesses a fawn to the plow, or puts an ox into the speeding-wagon. Life's problem is to make a right inventory of the gifts one carries. As no carpenter knows what tools are in the box until he lifts the lid and unwraps one shining instrument after another, so the instruments in the soul must be unfolded by education. Ours is a world where the inventor accompanies the machine with a chart, illustrating ...
— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis
... take my word for it, sir,” rejoined Pickering hotly. “I have filed an inventory of the estate, so far as found, with the ...
— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson
... dies out of it, however, when one learns two things; first, that likings change with growth of character and new experience, and, second, that few people are interested in an inventory of limitations. ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... proceeded to commence the arduous duties that now devolved on her. When Mr. Montgomery came, he found her doing that which he was about to suggest, viz., preparing for an immediate sale of the furniture, by taking an inventory, while the faithful servant was busily employed cleaning the house, for which a tenant was luckily found. The two young ones were doing their best to aid their sister. Mr. Montgomery wished them sent to the vicarage, but ...
— A Book For The Young • Sarah French
... that of the most prolific of his brother Italian artists. It is veritably a large picture-gallery of his works in itself. An idea of its numerical magnitude may be got by dividing it up into its component units and making an inventory of them. The vault itself, according to Heath Wilson, is one hundred and thirty-one feet six inches long, by forty-five feet two and a half inches wide at the large door end, and forty-three feet two and a half inches ...
— Michael Angelo Buonarroti • Charles Holroyd


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