cold storage
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nounDefinition of COLD STORAGE
1
: storage (as of food) in a cold place for preservation
2
: a condition of being held or continued without being acted on : abeyance
See Examples of COLD STORAGE
- food that has been taken out of cold storage
- <the president's domestic programs had been in cold storage while he attended to a string of international crises>
First Known Use of COLD STORAGE
1877
Related to COLD STORAGE
- Synonyms
- abeyance, deep freeze, doldrums, dormancy, holding pattern, latency, moratorium, quiescence, suspended animation, suspense, suspension
- Antonyms
- continuance, continuation
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