storage

[stawr-ij, stohr-]

noun

1. the act of storing; state or fact of being stored.

   All my furniture is in storage.

2. capacity or space for storing.

3. a place, as a room or building, for storing.

4. Computers.,  memory.

5. the price charged for storing goods.

storage

/ ˈstɔːrɪdʒ /

noun

1. the act of storing or the state of being stored

2. space or area reserved for storing

3. a charge made for storing

4. computing

   1. the act or process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape, disk, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      a storage device

      storage capacity

Other Word Forms

• nonstorage noun
• prestorage noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of storage¹

First recorded in 1605–15; store + -age

Idioms and Phrases

see in cold storage.

Example Sentences

Sheriff’s detectives and the FBI served search warrants at Buzzard’s Vandenberg Village home, the rental car and a storage locker on Oct.

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The state was the first to mandate battery energy storage at its major utilities, helping jump-start the modern grid-battery market, while its cap-and-trade carbon market program has been emulated in places around the world.

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He drove a truckload of his freshly harvested beans last month to a Cargill-owned storage elevator in Florence, Ill., but was turned away while the facility unloaded its crop onto a barge.

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Meanwhile, China’s rapidly expanding production of batteries, for vehicles and grid-level storage, has slashed the cost of those products.

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On the evening of October 21, they found something new: a nuclear warhead storage bunker.

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Related Words

• cache 
• depot 
• repository 
• stockpile 
• storehouse