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noun

ˈwer-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce warehouse (audio)
Definition of warehousenext
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

as in to garage

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Recent Examples of warehouse
Noun
Customers retrieve their own items from Ikea’s warehouses and typically assemble their Malm bed frames, Lack tables, and Hemnes dressers themselves. — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 30 July 2026 Sam and Tammy Machado, former Yolo County Sheriff’s Office employees who own the Esparto property, applied for permission to build a 4,500-square-foot ag-exempt warehouse on the property. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
Verb
Plastics and especially aluminum aren’t warehoused in large supplies. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026 The mass arrests have swelled detention centers and set ICE off on a national chase for space to warehouse those who have been apprehended. — Morgan Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for warehouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouse
  1. repository
  2. garage
  3. depot
  4. cellar
  5. storage
  6. house
  7. store
  8. hangar
Noun
  • Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The framework's own repository is blunt about its limits, describing its controls as defense-in-depth rather than true containment.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of repository
Verb
  • Parking Paid parking is available in multiple surface lots and garages around the event site, including Union Station’s West Yards Garage.
    — Kendrick Calfee May 22, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Transmission to people generally happens when virus-laden rodent excreta gets stirred up in dust and inhaled—for example, a person sweeping out a shed or garage with a rodent infestation without a mask.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
Definition of garage
Noun
  • The attacks were the latest in a series of Ukrainian strikes that hit depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s largest online retailer, causing massive damage.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • The result of their effectiveness is clear, in frequent videos of Ukrainian strikes on refineries and oil depots that have caused fuel shortages across Russia.
    — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
Definition of depot
Verb
  • Shipments include six bottles total, two of each selection, so members have one to open now and one to cellar for savoring at a later date.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Structured enough to cellar, but irresistible right now.
    — Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Definition of cellar
Noun
  • It’s been less than a year since Georgia Power’s regulator said the utility could double the size of its power grid and build new power plants, solar arrays and battery storage because of all the data centers slated to come here.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
  • China understood that control over energy storage materials would translate into industrial leverage.
    — Dennis Calvert, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of storage
Verb
  • Without those challenges, MLS has not necessarily made significant progress with its matches entirely housed on Apple.
    — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Fortunately, the design firm of Claesson Koivisto Rune overcame the obstacles, producing a triumph of Swedish style—a modest, minimalist, yet supremely comfortable property housed in two low, long buildings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of house
Verb
  • Industrial-grade potassium cyanide was stored casually in a bucket under the eaves and could be obtained without any difficulty.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The hearing followed Paul’s release of Fauci’s diary entries, which were stored on a government server.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of store
Verb
  • 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
Definition of hangar

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