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1. A detailed list of all the items in stock
   - stock list
    
2. The merchandise that a shop has on hand
   "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware";
   - stock
    
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
   "he dipped into his intellectual inventory to find an answer";
   - armory [US], armoury [Brit, Cdn]
    
5. 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";
   - inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking

1. Make or include in an itemized record or report
   "Inventory all books before the end of the year";
   - take stock, stock-take

Derived forms: inventories, inventoried, inventorying

Type of: imagination, itemisation [Brit], itemization, list, listing, merchandise, product, register, resource, resourcefulness, ware

Encyclopedia: Inventory