MEANING
1. A detailed list of items or resources, or the act of systematically recording them.
2. Goods or materials held by an organization for use or sale, or their recorded value.
3. An organized set of questions or statements used to assess characteristics, experiences, or interests.
Use it for
describing a systematic record of available material; distinguishing a complete itemized account from a casual selection; identifying what a review has includedSeparates a systematic list, goods held in stock, and a structured assessment instrument. Writing functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- compile an inventory
- an inventory of resources
- inventory the collection
On the page
The researchers compiled an inventory of the surviving notebooks before selecting passages for analysis.
The archive inventoried the photographs without assuming that their captions were accurate.
The firm reduced inventory without changing the range of products it advertised.
The analysis separates inventory costs from the cost of acquiring new equipment.
The study used a self-report inventory alongside the interview material.
Word forms
- Base
- inventory
- Past tense
- inventoried
- Past participle
- inventoried
- Present participle
- inventorying
Usage notes
Noun and verb. Noun plural inventories; verb inventories, inventoried, inventoried, inventorying; future will inventory. Take an inventory or inventory the items. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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