inventory
/ˈɪn.vənˌtɔɹ.i/ noun C1- 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.
- A detailed list of all of the items on hand. · The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
- The process of producing or updating such a list. · This month's inventory took nearly three days.
- A space containing the items available to a character, especially in a video game, for immediate use. · You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.
- The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.) · Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.
Plural inventories
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Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine English guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artistic bronzes by Feuchères or Barye; examined the cupboards, and placed the key in each; threw into a drawer of his secretaire, which he left open, all the pocket-money he had about him, and with it the thousand fancy jewels from his vases and his jewel-boxes; then he made an exact inventory of everything, and placed it in the most conspicuous part of the table, after putting aside the books and papers which had collected there.
The valet bowed and retired, and Albert returned to his inventory.
Their inventory includes everything from power drills and sleeping bags to pasta makers.
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