STORES Synonyms: 310 Similar and Opposite Words

stores 1 of 2

noun

plural of store

as in reserves

a collection of things kept available for future use or need her husband has a store of old magazines that he has been collecting for years

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as in hoards

a supply stored up and often hidden away keeps a store of quarters in the glove compartment for the parking meters

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as in shops

an establishment where goods are sold to consumers go to the grocery store for orange juice and eggs

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as in loads

a considerable amount we laid by a store of food for the party

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stores

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of store

as in keeps

to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability we decided to store the lawn mower in the shed instead of the garage

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as in stashes

to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place squirrels commonly store nuts in the hollows of trees and other places to prepare for the winter

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Recent Examples of stores

Noun

Markley cleaned up the lot, painted the building black and set up a complex digital warehouse which stores data from more than a hundred customers ranging from hospitals to universities to police stations. —

David Wade, CBS News, 18 June 2026 Though the shopping center once held dozens of stores, its population of retailers steadily dwindled for years amid a string of new owners and a decaying exterior. —

Matan Josephy, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026 The company declined to disclose any further investments in the stores to implement its strategy. —

Michael Wayland, CNBC, 17 June 2026 Specialty stores are amusement parks Land of the free and home of the … specialty store with live aquarium fish. —

Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 17 June 2026 In 2014, Lowes Foods began pulling out of Charlotte, swapping stores with Harris Teeter and closing underperforming stores as part of a reinvestment strategy. —

Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026 Before Jupiter loomed onto the scene, material in the disk tended to flow outward, carrying its stores of phosphorus and nitrogen with them. —

Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 17 June 2026 Business at clothing, accessory and furniture stores all posted increases. —

Anne D’innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026 The stores are located on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, at Manhattan Village in Manhattan Beach, The Bloc and Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles, Ovation Hollywood in Hollywood and Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance. —

Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 10 June 2026

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In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode. —

Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 Rigorous testing The new device is a supercapacitor, a type of energy-storage technology that stores energy by separating electrical charges rather than through chemical reactions. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 For biopsy mode, a gripper captures and stores tissue samples for later analysis, potentially allowing doctors to perform biopsies in difficult-to-access locations. —

New Atlas, 8 June 2026 One of these is the presence of an underground structure that stores starch and allows the plant to spread through the soil when growing conditions are good, and to rejuvenate from environmental stress should its above-ground growth die. —

Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 4 June 2026 Your phone already stores payment cards, tickets, boarding passes, keys and loyalty cards. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 There is also a new portable charging case for the Oura Ring 5 that stores one month of battery. —

Claire Peltier, ABC News, 28 May 2026 The district now stores the devices in carts at school. —

Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 26 May 2026 The tank, which stores a toxic industrial chemical, overheated and caused pressure to build up. —

Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 May 2026

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Oil supplies may take time to recover, and countries that tapped strategic reserves during the crisis will need to replenish them, creating additional demand, Kates says.

— Mike Winters, CNBC, 16 June 2026
Niger, which houses the world’s eighth-largest reserves of uranium, is not immune to this surge of violence.

— Kaitlyn Rabe, The Conversation, 16 June 2026