warehouse
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warehouse
- /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/
noun warehouses
- A facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products. Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching
- An intermediate facility where goods are transported from the manufacturer prior to their distribution to retailers.
verb warehouses · warehousing · warehoused
- To store in a warehouse or similar. Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
- To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period. When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning, but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.
- To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it. the warehousing of syndicated TV shows
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Closest in meaning: storage warehouse, stockroom, godown, store, depot, shop, storehouse, boutique, factory, storage, cache, reservoir, depository, storing, stockpiling, stockpile
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noun a place for storing large amounts of products
| Español | almacén, depósito, magacén |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 창고 changgo |
| 日本語 | 倉庫 sōko |
| 中文 | 倉庫 /仓库 cāngkù |
| हिन्दी | कोठी koṭhī, मालगोदाम mālgodām, गोदाम godām, माल-ख़ाना māl-xānā |
| Kiswahili | bohari |
| Português | armazém |
| Français | entrepôt, dépôt |
| Deutsch | Lager, Lagerhaus, Speicherhaus, Packhaus |
| Italiano | magazzino |
| Ελληνικά | αποθήκη apothíki |
| Română | magazie, antrepozit, depozit |
| Русский | склад sklad, храни́лище xranílišče, пакга́уз pakgáuz, амба́р ambár |
| Tiếng Việt | kho hàng, kho, nhà kho |
| العربية | مَخْزَن maḵzan, مُسْتَوْدَع mustawdaʕ |
| עברית | מַחְסָן makhsán |
Talk about this word "warehouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/warehouse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. warehouse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/warehouse "warehouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/warehouse.Cite this
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title = {warehouse},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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