warehouse

noun

• a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.
• a large wholesale or retail store:a discount warehouse

verb

• 1store (goods) in a warehouse: the pallets were warehoused the following day
• place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of import duty.

• 2North American informal place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed: our objective is not to warehouse prisoners but to help inmates build new lives