1. A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

2. A large, usually wholesale shop.

1. To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

2. 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).