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| adjustment | n. a change in order to match |
| automatically | adv. independently, without outside prompting |
| crucial | adj. extremely significant or important |
| discrepancy | n. a divergence or disagreement |
| disturb | v. to interfere with; to interrupt |
| liability | n. an obligation; a responsibility // n. a financial obligation |
| reflection | n. a likeness; an image |
| run | v. to operate |
| scan | v. to look over quickly // to move a light beam over in order to make a digital image or to record digital information (During the inventory, I scanned the bar codes of the merchandise to store the data in the scanner. Then, the data was downloaded onto the computer to create the inventory report.) |
| subtract | v. to take away; to deduct |
| tedious | adj. tiresome by reason of length, slowness or dullness; boring |
| verify | v. to prove the truth of |
| stockroom | n. a room in which a store of goods or materials is kept; storeroom storage room (The extra merchandise is kept in the stockroom.) |
| warehouse | n. a place in which goods or merchandise are stored (prior to their use, distribution or sale); a storehouse (We keep the heavy machinery such as tractors and other farming equipment in the warehouse. // The merchandise is stored in a large warehouse before being distributed to the retail stores.) |
| bar code | n. a machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to register the price of the goods and to activate computer stock-checking and reordering (Each of our products has a label with a bar code that the cashier scans at the checkout.) |
| figure | n. number; amount (Do you have the figures for the latest inventory? // The report shows the inventory figures for each month. The sales figures for the month are in, and it looks like we had a great month.) |
| track | v. to follow; to observe the progress of (I have been tracking the sales figures for the month, and I'm not happy with them. // Can you track the progress of the employees? How are they doing with the inventory? // This report will help us to track the sales orders and merchandise.) |
| keep track of | v. to keep oneself informed about (the progress or whereabouts of) (Doing a monthly inventory helps us to keep track of the merchandise.) |
| clear up | v. to solve / resolve something (We cleared up the discrepancy with the figures. We solved the problem.) |
| forecast | v. to calculate or estimate something in advance; to predict the future; to estimate or calculate in advance, especially to predict (weather conditions) by analysis of meteorological data (We can forecast how much merchandise to order based on our inventory.) // n. a prediction of coming events or conditions (The forecast looks good for our company. It looks like we have a bright future. // The weather forecast shows snow for tomorrow.) |
