INVENTORY

Inventory

The word inventory doesn't have the same meaning in the USA and in the UK: In American English and in a business accounting context, the word inventory is commonly used to describe the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate purpose of resale . In American English, the word stock is commonly used to describe the capital invested in a business, while in British English, the sentence stock shared is used in the same context, In the rest of the English-speaking world, stock is more commonly used, although the word inventory is recognised as a synonym. In British ...

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inventory

Noun

  1. 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. 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. the process of producing or updating such a list
    This month's inventory took nearly three days.

Verb

  1. 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.


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