单词 | warehouse |
释义 | warehouse (once / 841 pages) nv A warehouse is a place where a company stores things they are going to sell. If you order a book online, it is almost certainly shipped from a warehouse to your house. When a business has to store a lot of items, they often use a warehouse, or a large building, to keep them safe and organized until they're sold or made into a finished product. You can use the word warehouse as a verb, too: "I need to warehouse all these roller skates, because they're not selling as fast as I'd hoped." Warehouse combines ware, or "manufactured goods," and house. In other words, it's a place to house your wares. WORD FAMILYwarehouse: warehoused, warehouser, warehouses, warehousing+/warehouser: warehousers USAGE EXAMPLESThese days it’s populated mainly by seagulls, boarded-up barracks, some art studios and old warehouses, but officials hope the museum triggers its transformation. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) King Spa opened here in 2003 in a converted warehouse and office building. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The bridge's two towers were built of Cornish granite and originally designed as five-storey warehouses. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a storehouse for goods and merchandise Syn|Hypo|Hyper storage warehouse godown (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse a depository for goods 2v store in a warehouse Hyper store find a place for and put away for storage |
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