warehouse 1 of 2

as in repository
a building for storing goods when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise

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warehouse

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verb

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Recent Examples of warehouse
Noun
Service businesses face real-time cost pressures that cannot be warehoused or delayed. Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 That flour gets shipped across the country, is warehoused, and finally ends up on grocery store shelves. Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025
Verb
After leaving early from her job at a Houston-area Amazon warehouse several times, Rivera was devastated — but not surprised — when she was fired. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 Restaurant Row on the main stretch of Randolph Street is filled with restaurants and bars that have taken over old warehouse spaces. Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warehouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouse
Noun
  • The newest systems transcend the limitations of simple FAQ repositories.
    Karpagam Narayanan, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Farther east, the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang became a repository of documents, art, and sacred texts.
    Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There’s also a separate two-bedroom lodge on-site, plus garages for seven cars.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 July 2025
  • Among the recommendations were raising rates at parking meters, garages and establishing fees for permits currently free to residential car owners.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Two years before Thompson’s win, Betty White got a Guest Emmy for suffering through a bus-depot-musical version of The Golden Girls in an episode of The John Larroquette Show.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Hop on one of its wagon rides at the apple depot and take off into the fields to pick the apple variety that’s ripe for that week.
    Lorenza Medley, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Structured enough to cellar, but irresistible right now.
    Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shipments include six total bottles, two of each selection, so members have one to enjoy now and one to cellar for savoring at a later date.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The bus will also include a luggage storage area with each passenger able to bring one large suitcase and one carry-on with them for free.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Part of the change may be accomplished by ditching iPhone models with lower storage, particularly for the iPhone Pro.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Airbnb co-founder @jgebbia is working with @DOGE to digitize the government's antiquated retirement process — which is literally housed in 22,000 filing cabinets in a Pennsylvania cave.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
  • More than 1,000 employees circumnavigate the bustling fifth floor Tempus office around an atrium that Lefkofsky said was a spiral parking ramp before the building — a National Historic Landmark that once housed the country’s oldest mail-order firm — was converted to tech space 25 years ago.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To store fresh dill leaves, wrap the cut dill stems loosely in a damp paper towel and store it in a resealable bag in your refrigerator’s crisper drawer.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • We, in collaboration with our partners, store and/or access information on a user's device, including but not limited to IP addresses, unique identifiers, and browsing data stored in cookies, in order to process personal data.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Leslie Day, a friend who hangared her plane near Ms. Bera’s at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif., outside San Diego, estimated in an interview that Ms. Bera had spent the equivalent of more than three years in the pilot’s seat.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The issue of high fuel prices came to the board’s attention in late spring when airport tenants – which range from flight schools, to charter aircraft, to hangar renters – began to complain to board members.
    Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2017

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“Warehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warehouse. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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