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ware·house

(wâr′hous′)

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 (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).

ware′hous′er (-hou′zər) n.

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warehouse

1. (Commerce) a place where goods are stored prior to their use, distribution, or sale

2. (Commerce) See bonded warehouse

3. (Commerce) chiefly Brit a large commercial, esp wholesale, establishment

(Commerce) (tr) to store or place in a warehouse, esp a bonded warehouse

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ware•house

(n. ˈwɛərˌhaʊs; v. -ˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs)

n., pl. -hous•es (-ˌhaʊ zɪz)

v. -housed, -hous•ing. n.

1. a building for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.

2. any large and usu. public custodial institution for the confinement of the mentally ill, the aged, etc.

v.t.

3. to place, deposit, or store in a warehouse.

4. to set aside or accumulate, as for future use.

5. to place in a government or bonded warehouse, to be kept until duties are paid.

6. to confine (the mentally ill, the aged, etc.) in large custodial institutions.

7. (of a landlord) to keep (an apartment) vacant prior to a conversion to cooperative or condominium so as to bring a higher price from a nonresident.

[1300–50]

warehouse

Past participle: warehoused
Gerund: warehousing

Imperative
warehouse
warehouse

Present
I warehouse
you warehouse
he/she/it warehouses
we warehouse
you warehouse
they warehouse

Preterite
I warehoused
you warehoused
he/she/it warehoused
we warehoused
you warehoused
they warehoused

Present Continuous
I am warehousing
you are warehousing
he/she/it is warehousing
we are warehousing
you are warehousing
they are warehousing

Present Perfect
I have warehoused
you have warehoused
he/she/it has warehoused
we have warehoused
you have warehoused
they have warehoused

Past Continuous
I was warehousing
you were warehousing
he/she/it was warehousing
we were warehousing
you were warehousing
they were warehousing

Past Perfect
I had warehoused
you had warehoused
he/she/it had warehoused
we had warehoused
you had warehoused
they had warehoused

Future
I will warehouse
you will warehouse
he/she/it will warehouse
we will warehouse
you will warehouse
they will warehouse

Future Perfect
I will have warehoused
you will have warehoused
he/she/it will have warehoused
we will have warehoused
you will have warehoused
they will have warehoused

Future Continuous
I will be warehousing
you will be warehousing
he/she/it will be warehousing
we will be warehousing
you will be warehousing
they will be warehousing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been warehousing
you have been warehousing
he/she/it has been warehousing
we have been warehousing
you have been warehousing
they have been warehousing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been warehousing
you will have been warehousing
he/she/it will have been warehousing
we will have been warehousing
you will have been warehousing
they will have been warehousing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been warehousing
you had been warehousing
he/she/it had been warehousing
we had been warehousing
you had been warehousing
they had been warehousing

Conditional
I would warehouse
you would warehouse
he/she/it would warehouse
we would warehouse
you would warehouse
they would warehouse

Past Conditional
I would have warehoused
you would have warehoused
he/she/it would have warehoused
we would have warehoused
you would have warehoused
they would have warehoused

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Noun	1.	warehouse - a storehouse for goods and merchandise storage warehouse godown - (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
Verb	1.	warehouse - store in a warehouse store - find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"

warehouse

noun store, depot, storehouse, repository, depository, stockroom He worked in a freight warehouse, lifting and carrying heavy loads.

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warehouse

noun

A place where something is deposited for safekeeping:

archive, depository, magazine, repository, store, storehouse.

Translations

مخزنمَخْزَن بَضائِع، مُسْتَوْدَعمُسْتَوْدَع

sklad

=-lagerlagervarehus

Lager Lagerhaus

αποθήκη

almacén depósito

انبار

varasto

entrepôt

skladištespremnik

vörugeymsla

magazzino deposito

倉庫

창고

sandėlys

antrepozitmagazie

склад

skladišče

skladskladištesmestište

lagerlokal

โกดังสินค้า

depo ambar

kho chứa đồ

仓库

warehouse

[ˈwɛəhaʊs]

A. N (warehouses (pl)) [ˈwɛəhaʊzɪz] → almacén m, depósito m

B. [ˈwɛəhaʊz] VT → almacenar

C. CPD warehouse club N (esp US) (Comm) → economato m
warehouse manager N → gerente mf de almacén
warehouse price N at warehouse prices → a precios de mayorista

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

warehouse

[ˈwɛə^rhaʊs] n → entrepôt mwarehouse club n grande surface qui, pour une adhésion annuelle, vend ses produits en vrac à prix réduits

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

warehouse

n → Lager(haus) nt

vt → einlagern

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

warehouse

[ˈwɛəˌhaʊs] n → deposito, magazzino

-ware

(weə)

manufactured articles (made of a particular material). silverware/glassware.

wares noun plural

articles for sale. a tradesman selling his wares.

warehouse noun

a building in which goods are stored. a furniture warehouse.

warehouse

→ مُسْتَوْدَع sklad varehus Lagerhaus αποθήκη almacén varasto entrepôt skladište magazzino 倉庫 창고 magazijn lagerhus magazyn armazém склад lagerlokal โกดังสินค้า depo kho chứa đồ 仓库

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We walked in a body a few steps on a greasy pavement between her side and the towering wall of a warehouse and I hit my shins cruelly against the end of the gangway.

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One day after my return, as I went down to the quay, I saw a ship which had just cast anchor, and was discharging her cargo, while the merchants to whom it belonged were busily directing the removal of it to their warehouses. Drawing nearer I presently noticed that my own name was marked upon some of the packages, and after having carefully examined them, I felt sure that they were indeed those which I had put on board our ship at Balsora.