warehouse
/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/
warehouse noun: a facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products.
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Noun
warehouse (plural 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...2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- An intermediate facility where goods are transported from the manufacturer prior to their distribution to retailers.
Verb
warehouse (third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle 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.1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports
- 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.2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, page 26
- We nevertheless pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to process many of these children through the criminal justice system, and to warehouse them for years – and even more if they end up graduating to adult prisons, as most of them do.2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian
- To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
- the warehousing of syndicated TV shows
warehouse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
warehouse in Hindi
- a place for storing large amounts of products
- कोठी koṭhī, मालगोदाम mālgodām, गोदाम godām, माल-ख़ाना māl-xānā
warehouse in Tamil
- கிடங்கு, சேமிப்புக் கிடங்கு, பண்டக மனை, பண்டகசாலை, பண்டசாலை, பண்டக வீடு
warehouse in Marathi
- गोदाम, वेअरहाऊस, भांडारगृह
warehouse in Urdu
- a place for storing large amounts of products
- گودام godām, اَن٘بار ambār, مال خانَہ māl xāna, مال گودام māl godām, مَخْزَن maxzan
More languagesFewer languages
- warehouse in Bengali
- গুদাম gudam, পণ্যাগার ponnagar
- warehouse in Telugu
- గోదాము gōdāmu, గిడ్డంగి giḍḍaṅgi
- warehouse in Malayalam
- വെയർഹൗസ് veyaṟhausŭ
- warehouse in Kannada
- ಉಗ್ರಾಣ, ಕೋಠಿ, ಮಳಿಗೆ, ಗಡಂಗು
- warehouse in Punjabi
- ਵੇਅਰਹਾਊਸ, ਵੇਅਰਹਾਊਜ਼, ਗੁਦਾਮ
- warehouse in Gujarati
- કોઠી koṭhī
- warehouse in Odia
- ଗୋଦାମ, ପଣ୍ଯ଼ାଗାର
- warehouse in Assamese
- গুদাম gudam
- warehouse in Nepali
- गोदाम
- warehouse in Pashto
- ګودام godām, امبارخانه ambārxāna, ډيپو ḍepo, تحويلخانه tahwilxāna
- warehouse in Tagalog
- pintungan
- warehouse in Arabic
- مَخْزَن maḵzan, مُسْتَوْدَع mustawdaʕ
- warehouse in Malay
- gudang
- warehouse in Indonesian
- gudang
- warehouse in Thai
- คลังสินค้า klang-sǐn-káa, โกดัง goo-dang, กุดัง gù-dang
- warehouse in Vietnamese
- kho hàng, kho, nhà kho
- warehouse in Myanmar
- ဂိုဒေါင် guidaung
Examples of warehouse in a sentence
- Our hotel is hosting a function for all the warehouse workers on the night of April 18.
- People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
- Return the damaged goods to the warehouse for a free replacement.
Forms of warehouse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | warehouses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | warehouses |
| present participle | warehousing |
| past participle | warehoused |
| past | warehoused |
Origin of warehouse
From ware + house.
Words formed from warehouse
Phrases with warehouse
Questions about warehouse
- What does warehouse mean?
- Warehouse means a facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products.
- What is warehouse in Hindi?
- Warehouse in Hindi is कोठी (koṭhī), मालगोदाम (mālgodām), गोदाम (godām). See Warehouse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is warehouse?
- Warehouse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce warehouse?
- Warehouse is pronounced /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/.
- What is the plural of warehouse?
- The plural of warehouse is warehouses.
Words near warehouse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: warehouse (page history and authors); warehouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warehouse (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); വെയർഹൗസ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); warehouse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warehouse (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કોઠી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); warehouse (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); warehouse (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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