Definitions

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  • adjective business Not keeping an inventory of stock available, but ordering or manufacturing as required.

Etymologies

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inventory +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Some observers have even wondered if the lack of a cyclical market in durable goods in Japan is a direct result of lean production: An inventoryless, highly flexible system may significantly damp cyclicality.

    The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

  • Some observers have even wondered if the lack of a cyclical market in durable goods in Japan is a direct result of lean production: An inventoryless, highly flexible system may significantly damp cyclicality.

    The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

  • Certainly, the trauma of a vast inventory of unsold products in 1949 spurred Toyota’s thinking on how to build the inventoryless system that eventually emerged.

    The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

  • Certainly, the trauma of a vast inventory of unsold products in 1949 spurred Toyota’s thinking on how to build the inventoryless system that eventually emerged.

    The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

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