1A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored before their export or distribution for sale.

1. 1.1 A large wholesale or retail store.
   a discount warehouse

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   • A retail warehouse under construction at Nutgrove Avenue in Rathfarnham is now available to rent through Jones Lang LaSalle.
   • Our first gallery is located in a retail warehouse - not a place one would expect to see a fine art gallery.
   • Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
   • This acquisition follows Maplin's recent purchase of a standalone 580 square metre retail warehouse in Belfast earlier this month.
   • The following day massive actions by hundreds of people began against supermarkets, warehouses, and any shop whose doors were open.
   • Today, the island's west coast is an ugly strip of marbled shopping malls and the kind of throbbing theme pubs that import their memorabilia wholesale from a warehouse in Wisconsin.
   • For trinkets, the Skagway Outlet Store is a warehouse of value-priced souvenirs - most items cost just a few bucks.
   • For four years he worked as a door-to-door salesman selling knitwear from a suitcase before using his savings to open a wholesale warehouse.
   • He also established the UK's first wholesale greeting cards cash-and-carry warehouse at Barlow Fold and was the main sponsor of Bury Football Club for many years.
   • We checked into the Tai Hoe Hotel in the Indian Quarter of Singapore, close to downtown and to the discount electronic warehouses.
   • Like any retail warehouse running manpower and machinery at full holiday throttle, it's an impressive display.
   • By the time his first son was born James Lever was managing a wholesale grocer's warehouse and shop on Manor Street, near where Bank Street crossed the Croal.
   • The main types of stores that tend to fill up our retail warehouses are DIY stores, furniture stores, computer stores and toy stores, according to Cormac Kennedy.
   • Temporarily works in a warehouse for a minimum-staff retail chain.
   • In a planning notice in a national newspaper he indicates that he wishes to change the use of two units from a retail warehouse to ‘unrestricted retail use’.
   • Some Continental glass, currently sold at markets and discount warehouses, is advertised as hand-cut, but a close examination of the surface will reveal the flow marks of pressed glass.
   • The pair is seeking permission for a development which would feature retail warehouses.
   • Members receive special discounts but the warehouse is open to all.
   • Now that Wembley isn't the shopping Mecca it used to be, this big blue warehouse is the only retail magnet in the local area.
   • The application from Hazelmark is for a two phase mixed retail development including a district shopping centre and a retail warehouse.

   Synonyms

   store, retail store, outlet, retail outlet, reseller, cash and carry

1Store (goods) in a warehouse.

1. 1.1 Place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of import duty.
2. 1.2North American informal Place (someone, typically a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed.
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   • Programs tended to warehouse youngsters in large residential institutions.
   • The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced with that of warehousing, and now the only real goal is to warehouse cheaply.
   • Or we can have the 19 th-century status quo: 80,000 prisoners warehoused like battery chickens, where prison officers barely have time to cut down prisoners as they twitch on a rope.
   • Most of the fights occur in the minimum and medium security facilities because more inmates are warehoused together in order for the jail to keep their costs down.
   • The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced by that of warehousing, and now the overriding objective is to warehouse cheaply.
   • This was a daily situation where people were being warehoused in prisons.
   • In the meantime, drug offenders are warehoused in institutions that serve to transmit violent habits and values rather than reduce them.
   • So the number of people that we're warehousing in prisons - and it's been recognized across the board, just as Kennedy came out last year in his report on mandatory sentencing.
   • Every prison in the country now warehouses the mentally disordered: the numbers have been spiralling upwards since the closure of the old asylums.
   • People who fall into that category ought to be simply warehoused on the random basis that 25 out of 100 of them may re-offend.
   • The result: nearly one million blacks are now warehoused in America's jails, the majority of them young blacks, and a significant number of them are there for non-violent, petty drug crimes.
   • Besides reiterating their opposition to the death penalty, the bishops at their annual fall meeting said criminals must not be warehoused in prisons with sentences that do not fit the crimes.
   • States will absorb the staggering cost of not only constructing additional prisons to accommodate increasing numbers of prisoners who will never be released but also warehousing them into old age.
   • To keep growing today, the private prison industry needs more beds, people and lives to warehouse.
   • Some states such as California are putting more resources into treatment and prevention programs that are proving far more effective in helping people turn their lives around than simply warehousing them in prison cells.
   • According to the Sentencing Project, more than one million blacks are warehoused in America's jails.
   • I think it is time we stop warehousing our mentally ill in prison.
   • Prisoners being warehoused in extremely dangerous, volatile, brutal and often explosive environments where absolutely no sanctuary is available.
   • Outside of lockdown, captives are warehoused like cattle.
   • Well for example, people will argue on the outside that prisons are for either rehabilitation, or punishment or just warehousing them so they're not on the streets.