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

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

Some 300,000 people signed an online petition calling for the move after the employee, Lassana Bathily, hid several customers from the gunman in a cold store.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2015

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

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