cold storage

noun

1

: storage (as of food) in a cold place for preservation

2

: a condition of being held or continued without being acted on : abeyance

Synonyms of cold storage

• suspension
• suspense

Examples of cold storage in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web

The city's Department of Building and Safety opened the probe on June 17, the same day a fire tore through dozens of solar panels on the roof of the 500,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights. — Josh Boswell, CBS News, 26 June 2026

Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning. — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

The aforementioned fridge provides 176 liters of cold storage and includes a drawer freezer. — C.c. Weiss may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026

The initiative will include expanding free food access spaces, mainly through the purchase of refrigerators, cold storage, and shelving units, with the City of Milwaukee and Dane and Brown counties receiving 10 of each unit, according to the operating grant budget. — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 5 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for cold storage

• borage
• forage
• porridge