{
  "id": "stock.inventory",
  "term": "stock",
  "sense": "inventory",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "stock",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a collection of goods that are put in a store and are available",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collection.group",
      "products.goods",
      "store.place"
    ],
    "interaction": "The collection of goods is put in a store so they are available.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared availability",
      "combined quantity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Walmart's Bentonville distribution center holds 50,000 units of toilet paper in its climate-controlled warehouse as of June 2023.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Louvre maintains a stock of 38,000 ancient artifacts in its underground reserve rooms, accessible to curators.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's fulfillment center in Tilbury, UK, tracks 2.1 million product units in real-time using robotic inventory pods.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "collection.group",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "store.place",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "stock",
    "stocked",
    "stocking",
    "stocks"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stock.inventory"
}