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• cold store
  cold store

  noun

  a refrigerated compartment or building for keeping foods, furs, etc., in cold storage.
• cold-store
  cold-store

  verb (used with object)

  to store in cold storage.

cold store

¹ American  

noun

1. a refrigerated compartment or building for keeping foods, furs, etc., in cold storage.

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cold-store ² American  

[kohld-stawr, -stohr, -stawr, -stohr] / ˈkoʊldˈstɔr, -ˈstoʊr, -ˌstɔr, -ˌstoʊr /

verb (used with object)

cold-stored, cold-storing

1. to store in cold storage.

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Etymology

Origin of cold store

First recorded in 1890–95; by back formation from cold storage

Example Sentences

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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

Huge blocks of frozen at a cold store in Northern Ireland, Freeza Foods, which had been quarantined by officials suspicious of its labelling and state of packaging, were found to contain 80% horse.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

With it came a sudden fall in temperature, as if we had stepped into a cold store.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

At the end of a year, 94% of the kidneys that were perfused had survived once transplanted, compared with 90% of the cold-stored kidneys.

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