Definitions for warehouse
ˈwɛərˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzware·house

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. warehouse, storage warehouseverb

   a storehouse for goods and merchandise

2. warehouseverb

   store in a warehouse

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. warehousenoun

   A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

2. warehouseverb

   To store, as in a warehouse.

3. warehouseverb

   To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.

4. warehousenoun

   Plural form of warehouseman.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warehousenoun

   A storehouse of merchandise.

   Etymology: ware and house.

   His understanding is only the warehouse of other mens lumber, I mean false and unconcluding reasonings rather than a repository of truth for his own use. John Locke.

   She had never more ships at sea, greater quantities of merchandise in her warehouses than at present. Addison.

   She the big warehouse built,
   Rais’d the strong crane. James Thomson, Autumn.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warehouse

   A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities, towns, or villages. Warehouses usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets and then loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing, and production. In India and Hong Kong, a warehouse may be referred to as a "godown". There are also godowns in the Shanghai Bund.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warehousenoun

   a storehouse for wares, or goods

2. Warehouseverb

   to deposit or secure in a warehouse

3. Warehouseverb

   to place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid

FreebaseRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Warehouse

   A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns and villages. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing and production.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. warehouse

   A type of building.

   The warehouse was used for various purposes.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'warehouse' in Nouns Frequency: #2444

Anagrams for warehouse »

1. houseware

2. housewear

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of warehouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of warehouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of warehouse in a Sentence

1. Chris Spear:

   24/7 operations - it's an improvement, but it doesn't matter if it's a port in Los Angeles or Long Beach, or the last mile of delivery from a train to a warehouse in Wichita. You're going to have to have a driver and a truck move that freight.

2. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras:

   We will not allow Greece or any other country to be turned into a warehouse of souls, we are at a crucial moment for the future of Europe.

3. Dynasty Star Willie Robertson:

   A lot of people come down and visit. They want to come to the warehouse and take a picture and then they will go in and spend money… 2013 for us was the high mark so now we’ve seen where it’s leveled off and still there is a lot of people spending. In fact, even when the economy is down we’ve noticed that hunting stuff, it doesn’t miss a lick.

4. Luo Shuhui:

   I just want an answer from the government, are the officials corrupt, or what? Why did they build a hazardous chemical warehouse near our home without telling us? Who would want to live next to a ticking time bomb? No one!

5. Dave Parris:

   In 2002, when my book was first published, we reported that police found six addresses in the San Francisco Bay area alone. Some of them were properties, some of them were post offices, some of them were warehouse facilities. There were other address in northern California, southern California, as well as other parts of the country.

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