Warehouse vs. Warehousing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Warehouse and Warehousing
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Warehouse
A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc.
Warehousing
A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
Warehouse
A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.
Warehousing
A large, usually wholesale shop.
Warehouse
Store (goods) in a warehouse
The pallets were warehoused the following day
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Warehousing
To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
Warehouse
Place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed
Our objective is not to warehouse prisoners but to help inmates build new lives
Warehousing
To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent
"has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters" (Justine Wise Polier).
Warehouse
A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
Warehousing
The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
Warehouse
A large, usually wholesale shop.
Warehousing
Present participle of warehouse
Warehouse
To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
Warehousing
The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Warehouse
To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent
"has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters" (Justine Wise Polier).
Warehousing
Depositing in a warehouse
Warehouse
A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
Warehouse
(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.
Warehouse
(transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
Warehouse
To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
The warehousing of syndicated TV shows
Warehouse
A storehouse for wares, or goods.
Warehouse
To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
Warehouse
To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
Warehouse
A storehouse for goods and merchandise
Warehouse
Store in a warehouse
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