First recorded in 1890–95; by back formation from cold storage
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The cold store is kept at -18C to comply with UK legislation.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It would also be feasible to transform the skin cells in Oliver’s cold store into new living creatures.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2018
One of them had tended the town's cold store, a general store with refrigerated and frozen items.
From US News ● Sep. 29, 2016
Freeza Meats, a Northern Ireland meat processor and trader based on the Greenbank Industrial estate in Newry, is found to have a consignment of meat that tests as 80% horse in its cold store.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013
The cold store cellar on the edge of the property became my favorite place.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Specialty flours: “Those go bad pretty quickly,” Kimball says, but not if you cold-store them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2019
The time during which soft fruit can be kept even in cold-store is limited, and does not exceed about six weeks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Dr Coussios told the surgeon to transplant the cold-stored livers first.
From Economist ● Jan. 25, 2018
Summon the YouTube spectre of him in his 1960s pomp and you'll discover a performer seemingly cold-stored at his very moment in the sun.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
More significantly, 26% of the cold-stored organs failed to function in the first weeks after transplant, compared with only 21% of the kidneys that were perfused.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the patients who received a cold-stored kidney, 89 developed a condition called delayed graft function in which the kidney fails to function immediately after transplant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cheese should only be cold-stored when nearly ripe and should not be frozen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
