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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

A man who runs a funeral parlour a couple of miles from Khayelitsha keeps bodies in a cold store behind his office.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2023

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