Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
- noun A large, usually wholesale shop.
- transitive verb To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
- transitive verb To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deposit or secure in a warehouse; specifically, to place in the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
- noun A house in which wares or goods are kept; a storehouse.
- noun Specifically— A store in which goods are placed for safe-keeping; a building for the temporary deposit of goods for a compensation.
- noun A building for storing imported goods on which customs ducs have not been paid.
- noun A store for the sale of goods at wholesale; also, often, a large retail establishment.
- noun See the adjectives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A storehouse for wares, or goods.
- transitive verb To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
- transitive verb To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place for
storing large amounts ofproducts (wares). Inlogistics , a place where products go to from themanufacturer before going to theretailer . - verb To store, as in a warehouse.
- verb To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a storehouse for goods and merchandise
- verb store in a warehouse
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Examples
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Even the word "warehouse" itself has become something of a misnomer; the idea is no longer to house goods but to keep them moving, from port to rail to tractor-trailer to store display.
The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011
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In the front of the warehouse is the Asylum shop, a new operation they opened up.
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I believe you will discover that the warehouse is the possession of Matthews Industries, and that, with the knowledge that the man you will find was the face behind the Talon's hood, should be all you will need to know.
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In the front of the warehouse is the Asylum shop, a new operation they opened up.
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By consolidating shipments the warehouse is able to clear customs faster and expedite the movement of those goods into the U.S.
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Everything that comes in and goes out from this warehouse is accounted for.
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Everything that comes in and goes out from this warehouse is accounted for.
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Warehouse 13 combines The X-Files with the notion of that warehouse from the first Indiana Jones movie and proceeds from there.
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Warehouse 13 combines The X-Files with the notion of that warehouse from the first Indiana Jones movie and proceeds from there.
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Our warehouse is eight or ten miles out of town, so I am not much bothered by visitors, which is a relief.
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