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Inventory vs Docket - What's the difference?

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Inventory is a related term of docket.


As nouns the difference between inventory and docket

is that inventory is (operations) the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business while docket is (obsolete) a summary; a brief digest.

As verbs the difference between inventory and docket

is that inventory is (operations) to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory while docket is to make an entry in a docket.

inventory

English

(wikipedia inventory)

Noun

(inventories)
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
    • This month's inventory took nearly three days.
  • (lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * invent * invented * inventive * invention * inventor * reinvent

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (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.

    Synonyms

    * (take stock) index

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    docket

    English

    (wikipedia docket)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
  • (legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  • (legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  • An agenda of things to be done.
  • A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make an entry in a docket.
  • To label a parcel etc.
    • to docket goods
  • To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
    • to docket letters and papers
    (Chesterfield)
  • To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
    • judgments regularly docketed
  • To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
    • (Webster 1913)