warehousen.
/ˈwɛːhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈwɛrˌhaʊs/ a. A building or part of a building used for the storage of merchandise; the building in which a wholesale dealer keeps his stock of goods for sale; a building in which furniture or other property is housed, a charge being made for the accommodation; a government building (more fully bonded adj. warehouse) in which dutiable imported goods are kept in bond until it is convenient to the importer to pay the duty.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > warehouse > [noun]
warehouse1349
repository1725
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse > warehouse
warehouse1349
packhousec1483
godown1588
bankshallc1615
serai1619
seraglio1628
magazine house1645
truck-house1731
packing house1796
1349 Will of W. Erl in Red Register of Lynn (MS.) f. 85 j seldam cum..duobus warehouses.
1453 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 250 I kowd not gette no grawnt of hym to haue þe warehows.
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 94 Let them here what Christ saith in the ghospell to the ryche couetous gatherer, yt thoughte to make his barnes and his warehouses larger to laye in the more.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 286/2 Warehouse to shewe marchandyse in, une monstre a marchandise.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xl. 10 Therfore gather you wyne, corne and oyle, and kepe them in youre ware houses.
1539 T. Pery in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 140 I so beinge in my ware howsse bessy, ther yentrede in a pryste.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B3v The first suit of apparell that euer mortall man put on, came neither from the Mercers shop, nor the Merchants ware-house.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. iii. 105 Their prayers will..keep your ware-houses From fire, or quench 'em with their tears.
1660 in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) x. 375 My Mr. was all the while in the Warehouse with him wch brought ye Silke.
a1674 J. Milton Char. Long Parl. (1681) 3 Some who had been called from Shops and Ware-houses..fell to Huckster the Common-wealth.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 288 It is the retailer and petty shop keeper..that must supply the demands of the public. Importation is not their business, but to resort to the warehouse, and retail out the goods as received from thence.
1799 Local Act 39 Geo. III c. 58 §4 Every Box, Basket, Packet, Parcel [etc.]..brought to any Inn, Ware~house, or other Place, by any Public Stage Coach.
1840 Act 3 & 4 Victoria c. 17 §2 Spirits..in Warehouse under Her Majesty's Locks.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. i. 11 We have around us the wholesale ‘warehouses’ and offices wherein is transacted all the business between the dealers, the manufacturers, the spinners, the bleachers, the calico-printers.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlvi. 452 A packer's warehouse, and a bottle-maker's warehouse.
1918 Act 8 & 9 Geo. V c. 15 §7 Tobacco exported from Great Britain..or deposited in a bonded or King's warehouse.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vi. vii. 248 As Budæus calleth the worke in his Mercuries seller, or Minerua's ware-house [i.e. Παλλάδος Ταμιεῖον].
1612 S. Rowlands Knave of Spades E 2 b His richest ware-house is a greasie pocket, And two pence in Tabacco still doth stocke it.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 24 The kidney-pie man has just departed with his warehouse on his arm.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with wood > [noun] > carpenter's workshop
warehouse1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 286/2 Warehouse for masons or carpentars, astillier [= atelier].
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small (private) shop behind main shop
back-shop1549
warehouse1580
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Magazin, or arriére boutique, a warehouse, an inner shop.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iv. sig. C4v Tho. Where's the boy? Piso. Within sir, in the warehouse . View more context for this quotation
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. vii. 139 Neither did they care for so great confusion of compositions and mixtures which fill a whole ware-house and shoppe.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop
shopc1390
seldc1450
cheap-house1606
bursea1661
swag1676
repository1725
store1731
warehouse1754
sale-shop1757
shoppie1773
emporium1803
mercantile1984
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. iv. 77 Here and there you may now see an ordinary Shop dubbed with the important Title of a Ware-house.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. v. 98 She does not know which are the best warehouses . View more context for this quotation
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. ix. 149 Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse . View more context for this quotation
c1852–7 Katey's Voy. 13 ‘I know him,’ said one of the men. ‘He lives at Douglas, just off the quay.’ ‘I know him too. I've bought goods at his warehouse,’ observed a lady.
f. In a printing office (see quot. 1888).
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society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment > specific department
warehouse1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 153 Warehouse, the department responsible for printed work and ‘white’ paper... Warehouse-knife, a large knife used for cutting up by hand small quantities of paper.
g. warehouse to warehouse, used attributively to designate a clause in a cargo insurance policy which provides that the insurance policy applies throughout all of the normal course of transit. Also applied to the policy itself, etc.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [adjective] > insurance policy types
tontine1790
whole-life1832
term1834
floating1839
all risks1885
third party1901
non-profit1905
knock for knock1906
stamped1913
warehouse to warehouse1922
without-profit(s)1924
with-profit(s)1924
loaded1928
unit-linked1966
no-fault1967
new-for-old1984
critical illness1986
1922 Lloyd's List Law Rep. 30 Nov. 270/1 I am not sure that in a warehouse to warehouse policy the word ‘theft’ ought to be limited to theft by violence in the same way as it is in a purely marine policy.
1924 Lloyd's List Law Rep. 24 Apr. 450/2 The policy..incorporates the ‘warehouse to warehouse’ Clause No. 6 of the Institute Cargo Clauses.
1932 Law Times Rep. 27 Aug. 168/2 In my view, the practice has always been that the rule as to ship's papers applies though there is a warehouse to warehouse clause in the policy.
1974 E. R. H. Ivamy Marine Insurance (ed. 2) xiii. 121 The general rule is that the risk attaches when the goods are loaded, but may attach beforehand if the policy contains a ‘craft’ clause or the ‘transit’ (‘warehouse to warehouse’) clause.
1982 J. Phillips Dict. Trading Terms 65/2 Transit clause,..one of the clauses in a marine insurance policy defining the normal course of transit, and including the warehouse to warehouse cover that many traders require.
h. U.S. colloquial. A large and impersonal institution providing accommodation for mental patients, old people, or poor people.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > building devoted to charitable object
charity-house1758
institution1792
cottage home1797
institute1829
warehouse1970
1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Oct. 25/1 We have too many such ‘human warehouses’, staffed by underpaid and poorly trained personnel.
1972 Time 14 Feb. 67 But for most of Willowbrook's residents, the institution is a warehouse, a place capable of providing only shelter and the barest essentials, for those whose families are either unwilling or unable to care for them.
1974 J. Fletcher Ethics of Genetic Control 157 We ought to protect our families from the emotional and material burden of such diseased individuals, and from the misery of their simply ‘existing’ (not living) in a nearby ‘warehouse’ or public institution.
1976 N.Y. Times 25 Apr. iv. 1 Subsidized public housing has been anathema to the emigres who now live in the suburbs, where the very mention conjures specters of high-rise ‘human warehouses’ like those that have been erected in ghetto areas.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
warehouse-door n.
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1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvi. 93 A salesman..who..was smoking a pipe at his warehouse-door.
warehouse-keeper n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in warehouse or store
warehouseman1635
warehouse-keeper1683
storeman1885
stock-keeper1902
stocker1921
1683 W. Hedges Petition in Diary 26 Mar. (1887) I. 73 They have been forced to give Mr. Ellis, warehouse keeper, each of them, a Bribe.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 345 The Warehouse-keeper takes the Heap out of the Press-room..into the Warehouse.
1709 Act 8 Anne c. 21 §5 The Ware-house-Keeper of the said Company of Stationers.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs App. 321 Deliver the above, 10 November, 1810. A. B. Warehouse-keeper.
warehouse-rent n.
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1799 Local Act 39 Geo. III c. 58 §6 (margin) Parcels..to be delivered..on Payment of Carriage and Ware-house-Rent.
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warehouse-knife n. (see f).
warehouse-room n. storage in a warehouse.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > capacity for storage > in a warehouse
warehouse-room1615
1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. D For Warehouse-roome there till the Herrings be solde allow at most 2-0-0.
1799 Local Act 39 Geo. III c. 58 §6 The additional Sum of Two Pence for the Warehouse-Room thereof [sc. of the Parcel].
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 427 Does the value of this probability pay for the expense of warehouse-room?
Derivatives
ˈwarehouseful n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a building
housefulc1300
shopful1613
churchful1779
stableful1834
officeful1845
warehouseful1859
coteful1865
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 121 A man cannot get a coat or a pair of boots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from.
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warehouse party n. a party held (usually illegally) in a warehouse; spec. = acid house party n. at acid house n. Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > gathering for taking hallucinogens
warehouse party1988
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties
play-party1796
tail1837
surprise-party1840
street party1845
costume party1850
pound party1869
all-nighter1870
neighbourhood party1870
simcha1874
ceilidh1875
studio party1875
pounding1883
house party1885
private function1888
shower1893
kitchen shower1896
kitchen evening1902
bottle party1903
pyjama party1910
block party1919
house party1923
after-party1943
slumber party1949
office party1950
freeload1952
hukilau1954
BYOB1959
pot party1959
bush party1962
BYO1965
wrap party1978
bop1982
warehouse party1988
rave1989
1988 New Statesman 17 June 13/1 Jazzie's part of this new environment started to shape itself early in 1986, via the magnet of illicit warehouse parties.
1989 Chicago Tribune 11 Oct. v. 2/1 The city's black artists..created a street-smart dance music known as ‘house’ at warehouse parties on the South and West Sides.
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warehouse club n. (a) a club (esp. a sports club) for or consisting of warehouse workers (now rare); (b) originally and chiefly North American an organization which operates from a large, warehouse-like store and sells goods in bulk at low prices to customers who must first become club members.In sense (b) recorded earliest in the name of such an organization.
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1877 Notts. Guardian 19 Jan. 6/3 Cricket fixtures... I especially put forth this suggestion for the consideration of our ‘Warehouse Clubs’.
1917 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 5 July 8/3 The warehouse club is very strong.
1983 Barron's 5 Sept. 27/3 In early July a Price Club imitator, the Warehouse Club, also opened it doors.
1985 Nation's Business Mar. 74 (heading) ‘Warehouse clubs’ give small firms a break at the checkout counter.
2011 L. Laing Math for Grownups i. 23 Your friendly warehouse club offers bulk packaging and, they say, rock-bottom prices.
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warehousev.
/ˈwɛːhaʊz/, U.S. /ˈwɛrˌhaʊz/ a. transitive. To deposit or secure (goods) in a warehouse; to deposit (furniture) for safe keeping, a charge being made for storage; to place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of the import duty.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in specific place
house1439
garner1474
loft1518
cellar1550
pantry1637
warehouse1799
yard1878
dump1956
1799 Hull Advertiser 9 Nov. 4/2 16 bales of sugar which have been landed and warehoused.
1874 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/5 A building..in which will be found complete accommodation for warehousing the valuables of noble~men and gentlemen in their absence from town.
1886 C. Scholl Phraseol. Dict. II. 832 Any cotton you may consign to us will be warehoused pending your further instructions.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. ii. 22 Their stores of intellect are not squandered in the regions of fancy..but warehoused and kept sound at home.
1835 Edinb. Rev. 61 457 Our coal mines may be regarded as vast magazines of hoarded, or warehoused power.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 149 Its wondrous fount, from the days of Herodotus to our own, has been warehoused by small poets as part of their stock in trade of sparkling illustrations.
c. slang. To put in prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
1881 Punch 12 Feb. 71 D'you want to get us both ‘ware~housed’?
d. U.S. colloquial. To place (a person, esp. a mental patient) in a large and impersonal institution.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in institution
institutionalize1905
to put away1938
warehouse1972
1972 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 22 Feb. 1 The current federal lawsuit against Partlow State School and Hospital may become a landmark decision in America as the country continues its ‘trend away from large custodial institutions where people are warehoused and where they are denied the opportunity to develop their full potential,’ Dr. Philip Roos said here Monday.
1979 Time 2 Apr. 42/2 Freud's dazzling and complex theory of the mind..came along when American psychiatry was doing little more than warehousing the insane and performing the occasional crude Cuckoo's Nest lobotomy.
e. Stock Market slang. To buy (shares) as a nominee of another trader, with a view to a take-over. Cf. sense b of the verbal noun.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1977 Private Eye 13 May 17/2 The suggested reward to the Swiss holders for ‘warehousing’ the ex-Bates shares would be perhaps 10p or more per share profit.
Derivatives
ˈwarehoused adj.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective] > stored > stored in specific place or receptacle
vialled1637
bonded1809
warehoused1819
cellared1848
1819 Act 59 Geo. III c. 52 Table A—Inwards, Warehoused Goods. For a List of those Goods which may be warehoused, or otherwise secured on Importation into Great Britain without Payment of Duty in the First Instance, See Table F.
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