0 the activity of storing something in a warehouse (= a large building for storing things before they are sold):
1 the practice of putting people in large prisons, hospitals, etc. without trying to help them with their problems:
Goods are delivered when they're needed to avoid the costs of warehousing.
Food bank officials said the cost of warehousing and refrigeration is about 50 cents per pound of food.
Unnecessary warehousing of prisoners costs taxpayers millions of dollars.
Experts pushed for more community-based services to end the warehousing of mentally ill children.
Warehousing of long-term and often forgotten refugees is an outcome of the crisis.
