Pre-inventory

noun, plural inventories.
1.
a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
2.
the objects or items represented on such a list, as a merchant’s stock of goods.
3.
the aggregate value of a stock of goods.
4.
raw material from the time of its receipt at an industrial plant for manufacturing purposes to the time it is sold.
5.
a detailed, often descriptive, list of articles, giving the code number, quantity, and value of each; catalog.
6.
a formal list of movables, as of a merchant’s stock of goods.
7.
a formal list of the property of a person or estate.
8.
a tally of one’s personality traits, aptitudes, skills, etc., for use in counseling and guidance.
9.
a catalog of natural resources, especially a count or estimate of wildlife and game in a particular area.
10.
the act of making a catalog or detailed listing.
verb (used with object), inventoried, inventorying.
11.
to make an inventory of; enter in an inventory; catalog.
12.
to take stock of; evaluate:
to inventory one’s life and accomplishments.
13.
to summarize:
to inventory the progress in chemistry.
14.
to keep an available supply of (merchandise); stock.
verb (used without object), inventoried, inventorying.
15.
to have value as shown by an inventory:
stock that inventories at two million dollars.
noun
1.
a detailed list of articles, goods, property, etc
2.
(often pl) (accounting, mainly US)

the amount or value of a firm’s current assets that consist of raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods; stock
such assets individually

verb -tories, -torying, -toried
3.
(transitive) to enter (items) in an inventory; make a list of

inventory definition

An itemized list of a firm’s goods that have not yet been sold.