Meaning of warehouse In English

• 0 a large building for storing things before they are sold, used, or sent out to shops, or :

  • The goods have been sitting in a warehouse for months because a strike has prevented distribution.

  • We bought both sofas from a big furniture warehouse out of town.

• 1 a large prison, hospital, etc. in which people are kept but given little help with their problems:

  • Our new jails are mostly brick-faced warehouses with high fences in low-value areas.

  • The mental asylum in Romania was a warehouse for the mentally insane.

• 2 to store something in a warehouse:

  • The division was only able to sell 40 systems, leaving 80 units warehoused and unsold.

• 3 to put people in a large prison, hospital, etc. without trying to help them with their problems:

  • The UK is simply warehousing offenders in prisons without preparing them for a life beyond crime.

  • Patients fear they are being illegally warehoused at the hospital with no real chance of getting out.

• 4 a large building used for storing goods:

  • Textbooks are sent right from the warehouse to the schools.

• 5 a large building for storing things before they are sold, used, or sent out to stores:

  • The goods have been sitting in a warehouse for months because a strike has prevented distribution.

• 6 to store something in a warehouse:

  • The division was only able to sell 40 systems, leaving 800 units warehoused and unsold.