inventories 1 of 2

plural of inventory

inventories

2 of 2

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
And inventories of used electric vehicles dropped too, with only 31 days of supply in May, 23% below the year before. — John Paul Helveston, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 The group warned that even if refineries step up production of diesel into the year-end, inventories will likely remain strained until the second half of 2027. — Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 Including company inventories, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser estimated this week that more than 1 billion barrels have been pulled from stockpiles worldwide. — Heather Occhino, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026 Fuel inventories that act as shock absorbers have already been tapped. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 This was a back-door effort to coerce Detroit to phase out the internal combustion engine, as the only realistic way car makers could meet the requirement was to massively expand their EV or hybrid inventories. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 Longer-term supply agreements first, then prepayments and strategic inventories, then financing arrangements or direct investments in producers. — Anthony Milewski, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 China has started limiting exports of refined products again as its own inventories of crude oil and refined products have dwindled. — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
Noun
  • Decodo, a web data company, tracked price changes in 2025 across products ranging from electronics to clothing and home improvement supplies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Relief supplies were unlikely to reach the islands for three to five days, according to Saturday updates from FEMA.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • With a Bee Pro subscription, which costs $12 per month, users can get unlimited conversation summaries and daily memories as well as integrations with Amazon's webstore, its Alexa+ AI assistant and third-party apps.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The rollout includes Genmoji, notification summaries, Writing Tools, and the Clean Up photo-editing tool.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Lockheed Martin lists its maximum takeoff weight at 164,000 pounds, with a standard maximum payload of 46,700 pounds.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The Regenerative Organic Alliance lists the farm at the Silver level.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Logan Henderson, Robert Gasser and Dustin May have impressive repertoires of their own.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • 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

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“Inventories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventories. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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