Definitions for warehouse

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warehouse ware·house

Spelling: [noun wair-hous; verb wair-houz, -hous]

IPA: /noun ˈwɛərˌhaʊs; verb ˈwɛərˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs/

Warehouse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in warehouse (aeehorsuw).

Definitions for warehouse

noun

1. a building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.
2. British. a large retail store.
3. a building, or a part of one, in which wholesalers keep large stocks of merchandise, which they display and sell to retailers.

verb (used with object)

1. to place, deposit, or store in a warehouse.
2. to set aside or accumulate, as for future use.
3. to place in a government or bonded warehouse, to be kept until duties are paid.
4. Informal. to confine (the mentally ill) to large institutions for long-term custodial care.

Origin of warehouse

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at ware¹, house

Examples for warehouse

He was at the warehouse with the earliest clerk and left it with the latest.

A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

But much of that gear went missing from the warehouse before the Kiev unit ever saw action.

The school itself could easily be mistaken for a warehouse or a big box national retail chain.

I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a “sandwich artist” at Subway.

warehouse farms might be the answer to the global food crisis.

Then I promptly forgot all about her and ran off into a warehouse where the gang had gone to slide.

As I drudged on down there in the warehouse, my bitterness became an obsession.

My father's warehouse, too, lost its mystery as I grew older.

The next step was to steal one of the six pound tuna cans from the warehouse.