Warehouse

Quick meaning: Warehouse is a noun meaning (transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

Meaning

(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
2. (transitive, business) To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
3. A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Example Sentences

the warehousing of syndicated TV shows

When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning, but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.

Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

We nevertheless pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to process many of these children through the criminal justice system, and to warehouse them for years – and even more if they end up graduating to adult prisons, as most of them do.

Word Forms

• warehouses
• warehousing
• warehoused

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stockroom, godown, store, depot, shop, storehouse.

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