Warehouse Meaning
/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
verbTo store in a warehouse or similar.
Sentence Examples
The warehouse was a front for drug traffickers.
The warehouse was empty except for a piece of furniture.
Police are investigating a fire at a furniture warehouse.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company stored excess inventory in the large ____ during the winter.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The products are stored in a large ____ outside the city before they are shipped to several different customers today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English ware Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English warehouse From ware + house.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 on free food."
— 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company stored excess inventory in the large ____ during the winter.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The products are stored in a large ____ outside the city before they are shipped to several different customers today.