warehouse

ware·house

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Old furniture in a warehouse.

noun

The definition of a warehouse is a place where goods are stored.
An example of a warehouse is a place where furniture is kept for a furniture company.

verb

To warehouse is to store, or to place a patient in a large institution with minimal medical, educational or social services.
An example of to warehouse is to put a severely mentally ill person in a large institution that provides minimal psychiatric services.

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warehouse

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

Origin of warehouse

ME: see ware and house

transitive verb

-·housed·, -·hous·ing

to place or store in a warehouse
to place (a severely disabled person, a mentally ill person, an elderly person, etc.) in a large, impersonal institution

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warehouse

noun

A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
A large, usually wholesale shop.

transitive verb

ware·housed, ware·hous·ing, ware·hous·es

To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent: “has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters” ( Justine Wise Polier )

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ware′hous′er
noun

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Noun

(plural warehouses)

A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle warehoused)

To store, as in a warehouse.
To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.

Origin

ware +"Ž house

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warehouse - Computer Definition

See data warehouse.

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