Warehouse

Origin

ware + house

Full definition of warehouse

Noun

1. A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
• 2013-08-03, Revenge of the nerds, Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Derived terms

• warehouseman

Verb

1. To store, as in a warehouse.
2. To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.

Anagrams

• houseware