warehouse
warehouse
Definition
ware·house (wer′ho̵us′; for v., usually, -ho̵uz′)
noun
- a building where wares, or goods, are stored, as before distribution to retailers, or are kept in reserve, in bond, etc.
- Chiefly Brit. a wholesale store or, esp. formerly, a large retail store
transitive verb warehoused -·housed′, warehousing -·hous′·ing
- to place or store in a warehouse
- to place (a child, mentally ill person, etc.) in a large, impersonal institution
warehouse
Synonyms
warehouse
n.
warehouse
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- renovate: Back clones are renovated warehouse that who came second.
- bond: Taxes at any level could be levied on the tobacco sold out of the bonded warehouses.
- convert: An adjacent block has been sold to a property company which is converting a former warehouse into over 150 flats called Ocean Apartments.
- refurbish: THE DRAWING ROOM is located in an attractive refurbished warehouse in Hackney, East London, which opened to the public in May 2003.
- abandon: I continue my walk past elegant townhouses overlooking piers that fade into warehouses long abandoned and reborn.
- centralize: It then distributes these directly to the IBOs through a centralized warehouse in Venlo, Netherlands.
Adjective modifier
- converted: In October 2003, he and his wife opened the Jacmel Art Center in a converted coffee warehouse on the seafront.
- disused: Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.
- sq: The site comprises Banque Magnetique's 50,000 sq ft warehouse and 20,000 sq ft office complex together with adjoining land.
- derelict: The resource is being created from the refurbishment of a derelict warehouse in a shopping area in Barrhead.
- excise: An excise warehouse to which these Regulations apply is to be known as an " export shop " .
- Victorian: Or you could explore the Millgate Museum, housed in a Victorian warehouse on the banks of the River Trent.
Modifies a noun
- operative: The former Tesco warehouse operative was appointed in July 2003.
Noun used with modifier
- Carphone: In order to make a claim, please visit your local Carphone Warehouse store who will be able to help you make a claim.
- ft: All orders are shipped from our state of the art 76,000 sq ft warehouse facility in Greenock.
- data: SQL Queries run on the " data warehouse " can be used to some extent to support population care.
- transshipment: The restored Wool Road transshipment warehouse below Wool Road Bridge No 70.
- riverside: It was later occupied by the Trent Navigation Company as a riverside warehouse.
- dunnage: The majority of the warehouses at The Balvenie Distillery are traditional dunnage warehouses.
Browse dictionary entries near warehouse
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- wardroom
- wardrobe trunk
- wardrobe
- Wardriving and Warwalking
- wardress
- wardership
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- warehouseman
- warehousemen
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- wareroom
- wares
- Warez Software
- warfare
- warfarin
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