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warehousing, vbl. n.|ˈwɛərhaʊzɪŋ|
[f. warehouse v. + -ing1.]
1. The depositing goods, etc., in a warehouse whether under bond or otherwise. Also concr., money paid for the accommodation of a warehouse.
1795J. Phillips Inland Navig. Add. 135 Profits arising from the warehousing and wharfage of goods. 1853Act 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107 §10 To provide Warehouses for the warehousing of Tobacco at the Ports. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1883) I. 335 The system of warehousing, or admitting as a temporary deposit, foreign goods, free of duty, to await exportation.
b. Stock Exchange slang. (See quot. 1974.) Cf. warehouse v. e.
1971Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 14/6 ‘Warehousing’ is an old City practice. 1973Times 8 June 1/3 The memorandum has proposals designed to stop the practice of ‘warehousing’. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 22 Feb. 22/2 ‘Warehousing’—the technique of building up in collusion a major shareholding in a company behind the cloak of nominee names with a view to a take-over. 1983Observer 27 Mar. 18/9 Not a little ‘warehousing’ may have proved the prelude to recent attacks from South of the border.
c. U.S. colloq. The placing of mental patients or other disadvantaged people in large and impersonal institutions. Cf. warehouse n. 1 h.
1973National Rev. (U.S.) 7 Dec. 1259 California's shift from the ‘warehousing of the mentally ill’ in large state mental institutions has become a model for the nation. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 Jan. 2/1 Mental patients have the right to receive community care as an alternative to institutional ‘warehousing’ or release without care, according to a ruling by a Federal court in Washington, D.C. 1983Chicago Sun-Times 2 Aug. 7 Warehousing became the new ‘thing’. Forget about making men better, the theory ran.
2. Comb.
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. II. 41/1 An act passed in the last session, commonly called the ‘warehousing act’. 1817Evans's Parl. Deb. I. 1327 Mr. W. Pole said, the warehousing system was not thought of at the time the hon. baronet mentioned (1806). 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 505 The Ministers would have been pledged to support the sale and warehousing system of the Company. |