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Inventory vs Itinerary - What's the difference?

inventory | itinerary |

As nouns the difference between inventory and itinerary

is that inventory is the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business while itinerary is a route or proposed route of a journey.

As a verb inventory

is to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

As an adjective itinerary is

itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.

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

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    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

    itinerary

    English

    Noun

    (itineraries)
  • A route or proposed route of a journey.
  • An account or record of a journey.
  • A guidebook for travellers.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey
  • * Francis Bacon
  • It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.