warehouse

English

Etymology

From ware +‎ house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

warehouse (plural warehouses)

2. A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Hypernyms

• house

Derived terms

• bonded warehouse
• data warehouse
• tropical warehouse moth
• warehouse club
• warehouseman
• warehouser
• warehouse store

 

Translations

a place for storing large amounts of products

• Albanian: magazinë (sq) f, depo (sq) f
• Amharic: መጋዘን (mägazän)
• Arabic: مَخْزَن m (maḵzan), مُسْتَوْدَع m (mustawdaʕ)
• Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest), ապրանքապահեստ (hy) (aprankʻapahest)
• Assamese: গুদাম (gudam)
• Azerbaijani: anbar (az)
• Belarusian: склад m (sklad), схо́вішча n (sxóvišča), амба́р m (ambár), пакга́уз m (pakháuz)
• Bengali: গুদাম (bn) (gudam), পণ্যাগার (ponnagar)
• Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad), магази́я (bg) f (magazíja)
• Burmese: ဂိုဒေါင် (my) (guidaung)
• Catalan: magatzem (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 倉庫／仓库 (cong¹ fu³)

  Dungan: амбар (ambar)

  Hokkien: 倉庫／仓库 (zh-min-nan) (chhng-khò͘)

  Mandarin: 倉庫／仓库 (zh) (cāngkù)

• Cornish: gwaraji m
• Czech: sklad (cs) m, skladiště (cs) n
• Danish: varehus n, lager (da) n, pakhus (da) n
• Dutch: pakhuis (nl) n, opslagplaats (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: magazeno
• Estonian: ladu
• Faroese: pakkhús n, goymsluhús n, goymsla f
• Finnish: varasto (fi)
• French: entrepôt (fr) m, dépôt (fr) m
• Galician: armacén m, fondaca f, fundago m, fromeira f, magacén m
• Georgian: საწყობი (ka) (sac̣q̇obi)
• German: Lager (de) n, Lagerhaus (de) n, Speicherhaus n, Packhaus n
• Greek: αποθήκη (el) f (apothíki)

  Ancient: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē)

• Guaraní: almasẽ (gn)
• Hebrew: מַחְסָן (he) m (makhsán)
• Hindi: कोठी (hi) f (koṭhī), मालगोदाम (hi) m (mālgodām), गोदाम (hi) m (godām), माल-ख़ाना m (māl-xānā)
• Hungarian: raktár (hu)
• Icelandic: vöruhús (is) n, lager (is) m, pakkhús (is) n, skemma (is) f
• Ido: magazino (io)
• Indonesian: gudang (id)
• Italian: magazzino (it) m
• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Javanese: gudhang
• Kazakh: қойма (qoima), қамба (qamba)
• Khmer: កោដ្ឋ (km) (kaot), ឃ្លាំង (km) (khlĕəng), ជង្រុក (km) (cŭəngruk), ភណ្ឌាគារ (km) (phŏəndiəkiə)
• Korean: 창고(倉庫) (ko) (changgo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: embar (ku), mexzen (ku), depo (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кампа (ky) (kampa), склад (ky) (sklad)
• Ladino: magazen
• Lao: ສາງ (lo) (sāng), ກຸດັງ (ku dang), ໂກດັງ (kō dang)
• Latin: apothēca f
• Latvian: noliktava f
• Lithuanian: sandėlys, sandėlis m
• Macedonian: магаци́н (mk) m (magacín), склад m (sklad), скла́диште n (skládište), стова́риште n (stovárište)
• Malay: gudang (ms)
• Maori: whare pūkainga taonga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: агуулах (mn) (aguulax), амбаар (mn) (ambaar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lager (no) n, varehus n

  Nynorsk: lager n, varehus n

• Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen)
• Pashto: ګودام m (godām), امبارخانه f (ambārxāna), ډيپو f (ḍepo), تحويلخانه (ps) f (tahwilxāna), امبار (ps) m (ambār), مخزن m (maxzan)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنْبار (fa) (anbâr), مَخْزَن (fa) (maxzan)

• Polish: magazyn (pl) m, skład (pl) m
• Portuguese: armazém (pt) m
• Quechua: qullqa
• Romanian: magazie (ro) f, antrepozit (ro) n, depozit (ro) n
• Russian: склад (ru) m (sklad), храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče), пакга́уз (ru) m (pakgáuz), амба́р (ru) m (ambár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скла̏дӣште n, сместиште n, спре̏мнӣк m

  Roman: sklȁdīšte (sh) n, smestište (sh) n, sprȅmnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: sklad m, skladište n, skladisko n
• Slovene: skladišče n
• Spanish: almacén (es) m, depósito (es) m, magacén m
• Swahili: bohari
• Swedish: lagerlokal (sv) c, lager (sv) n, magasin (sv) n, packhus (sv) n, magasinsbyggnad (sv) c
• Tagalog: pintungan
• Tajik: анбор (anbor), махзан (maxzan)
• Tatar: амбар (ambar)
• Telugu: గోదాము (gōdāmu), గిడ్డంగి (te) (giḍḍaṅgi)
• Thai: คลังสินค้า (th) (klang-sǐn-káa), โกดัง (th) (goo-dang), กุดัง (th) (gù-dang)
• Tigrinya: መኽዘን (mäxzän)
• Turkish: antrepo (tr), depo (tr), ambar (tr)
• Turkmen: ammar (tk), sklad
• Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎁𐎒𐎐 (ỉbsn)
• Ukrainian: склад (uk) m (sklad), схо́вище n (sxóvyšče), амба́р (uk) m (ambár), пакга́уз m (pakháuz)
• Urdu: گودام m (godām), اَن٘بار m (ambār), مال خانَہ m (māl xāna), مال گودام m (māl godām), مَخْزَن m (maxzan)
• Uyghur: ئامبار (ambar), ئىسكىلات (iskilat)
• Uzbek: ombor (uz), sklad (uz)
• Vietnamese: kho hàng, kho (vi), nhà kho
• Volapük: magad (vo), canamagad (vo)
• Welsh: warws m
• Yakut: ыскылаат (ıskılaat)
• Yiddish: מאַגאַזין m (magazin), סקלאַד m (sklad)

Verb

warehouse (third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle warehoused)

1. (transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.
   • 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports:

     Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

2. (transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
   • 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, page 26:

     When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning, but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.

   • 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     We nevertheless pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to process many of these children through the criminal justice system, and to warehouse them for years – and even more if they end up graduating to adult prisons, as most of them do.

3. (transitive, business) To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

   the warehousing of syndicated TV shows

Translations

store

• Dutch: opslaan (nl)
• Faroese: goyma
• Finnish: varastoida (fi)
• German: lagern (de), einlagern (de)
• Greek: αποθηκεύω (el) f (apothikévo)
• Ido: enmagazinigar (io)
• Polish: magazynować (pl)
• Portuguese: armazenar (pt)
• Romanian: depozita (ro), înmagazina (ro)
• Russian: храни́ть (ru) (xranítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скла̏диштити

  Roman: sklȁdištiti (sh)

• Spanish: almacenar (es)
• Swedish: lager (sv), lagra (sv)
• Volapük: magadön (vo)

Anagrams

• houseware, housewear