Synonyms for inventory
- noun
- verb
Most common
stock list saleable UK schedule catalog US armory US stocktaking
Definitions
- n. 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.
- v. 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.
Related words
- Word family
- inventoryless invent invented invention inventive inventor
- Phrases
- take inventory inventory management
Forms
- Plural
- inventories → stocks, saleables, schedules, accounts…
- Past participle
- inventoried
e.g. inventoried → indexed, inventorized…
Choose the right word
An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- saleable Football players in their 40's are not particularly saleable.
- schedule We'll find more engineers to recover the schedule.
- catalog He sent me a catalog so I would correct it for him.
- armory We'll need to stop by the armory on our way out.
By length
- 4 letters
- list1, roll1
- 5 letters
- stock1, index2
- 6 letters
- record2, armory3
- 7 letters
- account2, catalog3, armoury, salable3
- 8 letters
- schedule2, register3, saleable3
- 9 letters
- catalogue3
- 11 letters
- enumeration5, stocktaking, inventorize
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (index2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inventaire
- Italiano
- inventario
- Deutsch
- Inventur