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in open store

in open store prepositional phrase: in uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.

Prepositional phrase

in open store

  1. In uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.
    • The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.1960 March, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214

Questions about in open store

What does in open store mean?
In open store means in uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.
What part of speech is in open store?
In open store is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in open store in the dictionary

  1. in one's teens
  2. in one's teeth
  3. in one's tracks
  4. in one's wildest dreams
  5. in open court
  6. in open store
  7. in operation
  8. in order
  9. in order for
  10. in order that
  11. in order to

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