store
/stɔː
/noun
1A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed: the squirrel has a store of food figurative her vast store of knowledge...
- Here, the dollar is ubiquitous as a store of value, a measure of wealth and a pricing mechanism.
- Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't.
- Kerr is fortunate to have such a store of commitment at hand.
Synonyms
supply, stock, stockpile, reserve, cache, hoard, accumulation, cumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load;
fund, bank, pool, mine, wealth, deposit, reservoir, inventory, repertoire, repertory
rare amassment
supplies, provisions, stocks, rations, food, foodstuffs
formal comestibles, provender
1.1A place where things are kept for future use or sale: a grain store...
- The service says that there are 384 000 tons in the licensed public stores, grain depositories and the mills.
- The sale includes a shop with floor space of 216 square metres and a store of 12 square metres.
- As Ray opened the door to a store of some sort, Rhea saw all of the weapons and armors.
Synonyms
storeroom, storehouse, warehouse, repository, depository, entrepôt;
granary, silo;
larder, pantry;
arsenal, armoury
British historical still room
archaic garner, spence
1.2 (stores) Supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution, or the place where they are kept: cupboards for medical stores he keeps the ship’s stores crates started arriving at the quartermaster’s stores...
- For Sgt Nathan Walsh, this means stores and equipment from Australia have arrived.
- The ship carries provisions and stores for battalion transportation for more than ten days.
- The supply of stores to the ship, which required a detailed and lengthy programme, is now well under way.
1.3British A computer memory.
2chiefly North American A shop of any size or kind: a health-food store...
- Sports drinks are easy enough to find, having made their way from health-food and sporting-goods stores to the corner grocery.
- Cinnamon sticks are found at grocery and health-food stores and, often during Christmas, at country gift shops.
- We have partnered with hair salons, health food stores, restaurants, flower shops, sports stores and other related businesses.
2.1British A large shop selling different types of goods: [with modifier]: DIY stores [as modifier]: a store manager...
- In my young and impressionable years as a Saturday Sales Assistant in a national chain of shops, my store manager once brought her holiday photos in to work.
- The store sells bargain clothes, toys and household goods but has come under increasing pressure from competitors in the discount market.
- Head for Orchard Road where you will find a large selection of malls and stores selling everything from clothes and jewellery to compact disks and cameras.
Synonyms
shop, retail outlet, reseller, department store, chain store, emporium;
supermarket, hypermarket, superstore;
mart
informal shed
North American informal big box
2.2 (also stores) British A shop selling basic necessities: a well-stocked village store
3A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening.Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores....
- The main changes for stores are with sheep which will be allowed into the market on a special movement licence which has to be obtained from the local trading standards officers.
verb [with object]
1Keep or accumulate (something) for future use: a small room used for storing furniture...
- Gareth took note and he took to a search for a suitable island to store his accumulated loot.
- Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders.
- Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide.
Synonyms
keep, keep in reserve, stow, stockpile, lay in/aside, set aside, put away, put down, put to one side, deposit, save, hoard, cache;
stock up with/on, get in supplies of, collect, gather, accumulate, cumulate, amass;
husband, reserve, preserve
informal put away for a rainy day, squirrel away, salt away, stash
put into storage, put in store, stow (away), put away;
warehouse
1.1Retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval: the data is stored on disk...
- In these solutions, confidential information is stored on a secure Web server.
- Information is stored on the card and updated every time it is used in a transaction.
- This information will be stored on a special website so pupils can record and learn about the main issues in recycling and managing waste in the region.
1.2 (be stored with) Have a supply of (something useful): a mind well stored with esoteric knowledge...
- That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat.
Phrases
in store
set (or lay or put) store by (or on)
store something up
Create problems for the future by failing to address a particular situation adequately at the time: they’re storing up trouble by denying opportunities to younger players...
- There is little doubt many of us are storing up problems in our finances for our later years.
- What's happening today is storing up major problems for the future.
- In many ways the territorial settlement which Versailles established stored up problems for the future, not least in its reshaping of Germany.
Derivatives
storable
- By turning grain into spirits, the grain would not be wasted; instead, it was transformed into a storable product that could be transported.
- Because gray squirrels are highly sensitive to the perishability of acorns it was critical to design artificial seeds that were recognized by the animals as potentially storable items.
- At that time, temperatures are still relatively mild and there is a rich supply of storable food, such as seeds and nuts.
storer
- To the right of the vegetable storer, is a silver upright griller, and a new, white, 4 piece toaster, still in its box.
- I have no evidence that the storage rate for the sailboat is excessive, such as evidence from other storers of lower competitive rates or of a regulated range of rates.
- In the 1990s, one commentator presented the idea that archives should move from being a storer of information to a presenter of older information.
Origin
Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare 'renew'; compare with restore.