Pronunciation: /ˈwɛːhaʊs/
noun
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a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.
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a large wholesale or retail store: a discount warehouse
verb
Pronunciation: /also ˈwɛːhaʊz/
[with object]-
1store (goods) in a warehouse: the pallets were warehoused the following day
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place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of import duty.
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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