单词 | warehousing |
释义 | warehousingn. 1. a. The depositing goods, etc., in a warehouse whether under bond or otherwise. Also concrete, money paid for the accommodation of a warehouse. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for storage facilities housage1578 cellarage1762 storage1775 warehousing1795 boomage1862 sideage1868 yardage1868 yard-money1884 warehouseage1915 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > storing in specific place cellaring1448 housage1803 warehousing1853 yarding1865 materials handling1932 1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 135 Profits arising from the warehousing and wharfage of goods. 1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 107 §10 To provide Warehouses for the warehousing of Tobacco at the Ports. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1883) I. 335 The system of warehousing, or admitting as a temporary deposit, foreign goods, free of duty, to await exportation. b. Stock Market slang. (See quot. 1974.) Cf. warehouse v. e. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1971 Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 14/6 ‘Warehousing’ is an old City practice. 1973 Times 8 June 1/3 The memorandum has proposals designed to stop the practice of ‘warehousing’. 1974 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 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. 1983 Observer 27 Mar. 18/9 Not a little ‘warehousing’ may have proved the prelude to recent attacks from South of the border. c. U.S. colloquial. The placing of mental patients or other disadvantaged people in large and impersonal institutions. Cf. warehouse n. h. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > in institution institutionalism1862 institutionalization1951 warehousing1973 1973 National 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. 1976 National 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. 1983 Chicago Sun-Times 2 Aug. 7 Warehousing became the new ‘thing’. Forget about making men better, the theory ran. 2. In combinations. ΚΠ 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. Parl. 41/1 An act passed in the last session, commonly called the ‘warehousing act’. 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1327 Mr. W. Pole said, the warehousing system was not thought of at the time the hon. baronet mentioned (1806). 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 505 The Ministers would have been pledged to support the sale and warehousing system of the Company. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1795 |
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