Warehousing

ware·house  (wârhous)

n.

1. A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

2. A large, usually wholesale shop.

tr.v. also (-houz) ware·housed, ware·hous·ing, ware·hous·es

1. To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

2. To institutionalize (people) 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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warehouser (-houzr) n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

warehousing - depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" repositing, reposition, storage deposition, deposit - the act of putting something somewhere stockpiling - accumulating and storing a reserve supply; "the stockpiling of war materials"