dead storage

American  

noun

1. the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.

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Example Sentences

“So there’s a commercial sitting offline in dead storage somewhere, probably in a mountain cave in Georgia, of John Elway’s Disney Super Bowl commercial from that game,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. was just getting its draft machinery going again, after 17 months in dead storage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In dead storage are some 19,000,000 bags of Brazilian coffee for which no market exists.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the wish enters upon the scene, it is as if a dead storage battery has been refreshed with new current.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.