Warehouse Definition
wârhous
warehoused, warehouses, warehousing
noun
warehouses
A building where wares, or goods, are stored, as before distribution to retailers, or are kept in reserve, in bond, etc.
Webster's New World
A wholesale store or, esp. formerly, a large retail store.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- storage warehouse
- storage
- shelter
- accommodate
- stockpile
- entrepot
- store
- magazine
- depository
- storehouse
- stockroom
- repository
- depot
- storage loft
- elevator
verb
warehoused, warehousing
To place or store in a warehouse.
Webster's New World
To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent.
American Heritage
To place (a severely disabled person, a mentally ill person, an elderly person, etc.) in a large, impersonal institution.
Webster's New World
To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.
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