inventory

Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).

noun

1. (operations) 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.
2. (operations) 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.
3. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
   This month's inventory took nearly three days.
4. A space containing the items available to a character, especially that 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.
5. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.
   Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure.. 2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →OCLC, page 270

verb

1. (transitive, operations) 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.