Crossword clues for inventories
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inventory \In"ven*to*ry\, n.; pl. Inventories. [L. inventarium: cf. LL. inventorium, F. inventaire, OF. also inventoire. See Invent.]
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An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth. Hence: Any listing, as in a catalogue, of objects or resources on hand and available for use or for sale. Specifically, the annual account listing the stock on hand, taken in any business.
There take an inventory of all I have.
--Shak. The objects contained on an inventory[1]; especially: the stock of items on hand in any business, either for sale and not yet sold, or kept as raw materials to be converted into finished products.
The total value of all goods in an inventory[2].
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The act of making an inventory[1].
Syn: List; register; schedule; catalogue. See List.
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Usage examples of "inventories".
And when men are laid off they don't have money to spend, so retail trade slacks off some more, and that backs up inventories some more, and that backs up orders to factories and makes unemployment and hurts retail trade again.
Men get hired to build it and they're paid money to spend in retail trade and that moves inventories and industry picks up.
They get more money for retail trade and to move inventories and keep factories going and get more people hired.
A slackening of employment would cause a drop in retail trade, an increase in inventories, a depression in industry.
He assured me that there was a tinge of malicious humor in every one of their classifications, because humor was the only means of counteracting the compulsion of human awareness to take inventories and to make cumber some classifications.
You see, a large percentage of businesses failed even in boom times in which case their inventories were sold below cost.
Let them, along with all good citizens and the constituted authorities, take charge of the inventories of grain and arms, and make requisitions for men, and let the Committee of Public Safety direct this sublime movement.
Ramage had spent much of the previous evening and most of this morning working with his clerk, trying to get all the lists, affidavits, musters, invoices, pay tickets, surveys and inventories checked and signed where necessary.
If both sides reduce their inventories by half, that still leaves five thousand warheads that can hit our country.
You could cut Soviet inventories by two thirds and still leave them with enough warheads to turn America into a crematorium.