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

This is a cold washed process bean, meaning the cherry pulp is washed away from the bean before it’s put in cold storage for 72 hours and then dried. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026

This 20,000-square-foot campus in Englewood, housed in a former mattress factory, will have much more space for food packing and cold storage. — Kathleen Toner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Then the other piece is just large companies, could be their corporate headquarters, could be warehouse, could be distribution, could be cold storage. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Investigators with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control searched the offices of the Lineage cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights that burned down this summer as part of a criminal probe on Tuesday, authorities said. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for cold storage

• borage
• forage
• porridge