noun

1. a building where wares, or goods, are stored, as before distribution to retailers, or are kept in reserve, in bond, etc.
2. Chiefly Brit. a wholesale store or, esp. formerly, a large retail store

Etymology: ME: see ware & house

transitive verb warehoused -·housed′, warehousing -·hous′·ing

1. to place or store in a warehouse
2. to place (a child, mentally ill person, etc.) in a large, impersonal institution