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noun

Inventory n. (pl. inventories)

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth. Hence: Any listing, as in a catalogue, of objects or resources on hand and available for use or for sale. Specifically, The annual account listing the stock on hand, taken in any business. "There take an inventory of all I have."

The objects contained on an inventory (1); especially: The stock of items on hand in any business, either for sale and not yet sold, or kept as raw materials to be converted into finished products.

The total value of all goods in an inventory (2).

The act of making an inventory (1).

Synonyms: List; register; schedule; catalogue. See List.

verb

Inventory v. t. (past & past part. inventoried; pres. part. inventorying) To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. "I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled."

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Etymology of 'Inventory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inventory" Quotes from Famous Books

... build another in the space of a day. A rough earthen vessel to hold water, leaves for plates, gourds for drinking-vessels, a piece of matting to sleep on, and a small axe, a sickle and a spear, exhaust the inventory of the Baiga's furniture, and the money value of the whole would not exceed a rupee. [96] The Baigas never live in a village with other castes, but have their huts some distance away from the village in the jungle. Unlike the other tribes also, the Baiga prefers his house ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

... flight Lifts generations—such your Father's story, And also yours, for is not that, too, gory? You pour out your hearts blood in sons to fight For honor, and cease not till every right Has been set down in Triumph's inventory. ...

— Freedom, Truth and Beauty • Edward Doyle

... Sir, I am a man, that hath not done your love All the worst offices: here I wear your keys, See all your coffers and your caskets lock'd, Keep the poor inventory of your jewels, Your plate and monies; am your steward, sir. ...

— Volpone; Or, The Fox • Ben Jonson

... to the emotions which has been brought by later art to a high pitch of perfection, but with which the personal feeling of the artist has not much more to do than the "passions" of an auctioneer's clerk have to do with the compilation of his inventory. A poet himself, Horace wrote for poets; to him the pathetic implied the ideal, the imaginative, the rhetorical; he lived before the age of Realism and the Realists, and would scarcely have comprehended either the men or the method if he could have come across them. Had he done so, however, he ...

— Sterne • H.D. Traill

... Industrial Arts, in the State Hall of the Louvre, has excited a lively interest among the visitors. Here are to be seen, heaped up in a large octagonal show-case, incomparable treasures, whose value exceeds quite a number of millions. According to the inventory of 1818, the 52,000 precious stones of the crown of France were estimated as worth more than 20 million francs ($4,000,000); but since that epoch the stones have increased in number, and money has singularly diminished in value, so that the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various

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