warehouse

/ˈwɛrhaʊs/

/ˈwɛəhaʊs/

Other forms: warehouses; warehousing; warehoused

A warehouse is a place where a company stores things they are going to sell. If you order a book online, it is almost certainly shipped from a warehouse to your house.

When a business has to store a lot of items, they often use a warehouse, or a large building, to keep them safe and organized until they're sold or made into a finished product. You can use the word warehouse as a verb, too: "I need to warehouse all these roller skates, because they're not selling as fast as I'd hoped." Warehouse combines ware, or "manufactured goods," and house. In other words, it's a place to house your wares.

Definitions of warehouse

1. noun

   a storehouse for goods and merchandise
   synonyms: storage warehouse

   types:

   godown

   (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse

   type of:

   depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse

   a depository for goods
2. verb

   store in a warehouse
   type of:

   store

   find a place for and put away for storage