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say it: in-vuhn-TAW-ree
inventory is a noun and verb meaning "a detailed list of all the items in stock". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a detailed list of all the items in stock
the merchandise that a shop has on hand
“they carried a vast inventory of hardware”
“they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory”
(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
accounting
making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
“an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing”
“they held an inventory every month”
make or include in an itemized record or report
“Inventory all books before the end of the year”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inventory come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.