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warehouse
[ noun wair-hous; verb wair-houz, -hous ]
noun
- a building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.
- British. a large retail store.
- a building, or a part of one, in which wholesalers keep large stocks of merchandise, which they display and sell to retailers.
verb (used with object)
- to place, deposit, or store in a warehouse.
- to set aside or accumulate, as for future use.
- to place in a government or bonded warehouse, to be kept until duties are paid.
- Informal. to confine (the mentally ill) to large institutions for long-term custodial care.
warehouse
noun
- a place where goods are stored prior to their use, distribution, or sale
- See bonded warehouse
- a large commercial, esp wholesale, establishment
verb
- tr to store or place in a warehouse, esp a bonded warehouse
Other Words From
- mini·warehouse noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of warehouse1
Example Sentences
You don’t want to start coming up with a plan when the vaccine is sitting in a warehouse.
When the mortgage is funded, the paper records get boxed, stamped with a bar code, and go into the lender’s warehouse.
The purpose of hanging phones in trees is to trick Amazon’s dispatch mechanism into believing the drivers are closer to a warehouse or store than they really are.
Amazon and its warehouse workers have a history of clashing.
The reason that e-commerce is so expensive, he said, is because of the warehouse costs and the costs of human labor, which also has a lot of inefficiencies.
Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
But much of that gear went missing from the warehouse before the Kiev unit ever saw action.
Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing.
The school itself could easily be mistaken for a warehouse or a big box national retail chain.
The revitalized warehouse district extends from NW 20th Street to NW 36th Street, from North Miami Avenue to NW 3rd.
The duty on this would amount to about 150, and this has to be paid before the tobacco is removed from the bonded warehouse.
When they are ready they hasten in a crowd to the warehouse, where they have entered into a contract beforehand.
In 1849, he had a warehouse in York, and owned ten first-rate merchandise cars on the Road, doing a fine business.
His clothes are made of the finest materials; but are those same materials less fine in the warehouse or in the whole piece?
Finally, I came to the rear of the vacant warehouse, satisfied that I had arrived unseen.
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