warehouse
/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/ verb C2- To store in a warehouse or similar.
- To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
- To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it. · the warehousing of syndicated TV shows
He/she/it warehouses · Past warehoused · Past participle warehoused · -ing form warehousing
Verb forms
- Base form
- warehouse
- He/she/it
- warehouses
- Past
- warehoused
- Past participle
- warehoused
- -ing form
- warehousing
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I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.”
Anyone who had quitted Marseilles a few years previously, well acquainted with the interior of Morrel’s warehouse, and had returned at this date, would have found a great change.
Like the rats that one by one forsake the doomed ship even before the vessel weighs anchor, so all the numerous clerks had by degrees deserted the office and the warehouse.
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