continuous inventory
inventory
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈɪnvəntri, ɪnˈventəri/ us /ˈɪnvənˌtɔri/
to make a detailed list of all the goods and property owned by a person or a business:
The judge ordered that all property should be inventoried before any more sales were made.

Examples of inventory

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Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).
Indeed, much of the evidence for the mechanization of wheat farms was obtained from the inventories of insolvent estates.
Diaries and inventories are kept by participants to assist this process.
Variation in developing and fully developed phonetic inventories.
In some languages, the segmental inventories sponsored by the two contexts are either identical or nearly so.
The predicted correlation between segment neutrality and the obligatory consonants of inventories is summarised in (47), with the obligatory types indicated in boldface.
There will also always be gaps in inventories and available world knowledge.
Indeed, preliminary inventories of the general linguistic characteristics of the dialects reveals a plethora of archaic features.
If both agree to trade, they swap inventories one-for-one (because the goods are indivisible); otherwise, they part company and wait for the next period.
Harding's work includes comprehensive references to military reports, packing lists, shipwrecks, inventories, expenditure ledgers and accounts receivable.
At each assessment, participants completed self-report inventories and were interviewed by an independent assessor who was blind to the individual's specific treatment condition.
When probate inventories of the property of colonos are studied, the value of walls can be seen to be particularly prominent.
Phonological analyses focused on the construction of all subjects' phonetic inventories over time.
Previous studies have suggested that liquids are rare in the phonetic inventories of infants at the onset of first words.
Other speakers give multiple answers for a single subject type, and these individuals form the group of variable inventories.
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Collocations withinventory

inventory

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consonant inventory
Liquids were not reported in initial position and comprised only 2% of the final consonant inventory, occurring most frequently intervocalically.
entire inventory
The entireinventory consists of eight vowels, all of which can appear in stressed syllables.
excess inventory
Without accurate and timely inventory levels, internal production plans and external purchase orders can not be scheduled effectively, leading to inventory shortages and excessinventory.
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