inventories 1 of 2

noun

plural of inventory
1
as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time the dealership has an unusually large inventory of pre-owned vehicles

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2
as in summaries
a short statement of the main points offers an informative inventory of everything that is known about the virus at this time

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inventories

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verb

present tense third-person singular of inventory
as in lists
to make a list of would you inventory the supplies in the back room?

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Recent Examples of inventories
Noun
As crude inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drain toward their operational limits, America is left, armed with just 300 million barrels. — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 Missile inventories cannot refill instantly because the underlying network was never built for sudden, sustained high-volume demand. — Dennis Mitzner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Some have seen their inventories literally go up in smoke and, despite promises of compensation, many are facing imminent bankruptcy. — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026 As businesses reopened almost overnight, inventories at every level of the supply chain had run dry, demand surged, and freight rates spiked to record levels at a moment when there were simply not enough trucks on the road. — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 Defenders need enough weapons to sustain an engagement without exhausting inventories or budgets. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026 The need to refill inventories and build up stronger strategic reserves of oil may also boost demand. — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026 The moment a trend is approved, the system scans regional mill inventories to identify available stock fabric instantly, cutting days out of traditional sampling cycles. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
  1. supplies
  2. summaries
  3. lists
  4. repertoires
Noun
  • The war, now stretching into its seventh month, has disrupted global energy supplies and sent shockwaves through global financial markets.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The 10-foot-tall model is available, while supplies last for $199 on the Samuel Adams website.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of supplies
Noun
  • The memo provides a summary of the agreement between Google and Entergy, as well as summaries of testimony provided by Entergy officials in support of the contract.
    — Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Structuring this with clean schema, FAQs and listicles ensures both AI summaries and real searchers choose our client’s sites.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of summaries
Verb
  • Burning Man lists it at 72 feet long and 17 feet tall, roughly the length of a large motor yacht.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The Pentagon also lists more than 400 troops as wounded in action during Operation Epic Fury.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of lists
Noun
  • By separating skill acquisition from task specification, BeyondMimic provides a route toward humanoid robots that can learn large repertoires of human movement and recombine those skills to handle new situations without task-specific retraining.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Over the ensuing decades, the young nation incorporated the musical repertoires, instruments and expressions of immigrants from various European and African groups.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
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