distribution warehouse
warehouse
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈweəhaʊs/us
to store something in a warehouse:
The division was only able to sell 40 systems, leaving 800 units warehoused and unsold.

warehousing

noun[ U ]
the logistics of warehousing

Examples of warehouse

warehouse
In retaliation, the vine growers set fire to the merchants' warehouses, occupied city halls, and organized demonstrations.
Even firms stocking massproduced items may end up offering different menus to customers because of differences in warehousing ability.
Importantly, this would only be paid to the men who assented to the bosses' complete power over their employment in the warehouses.
The innovative monitoring systems are now being introduced in warehouses and distribution centres with employees made to wear electronic wrist tags to monitor their actions.
The island had buildings for baking, meat dressing, pickling, barrel-making, clothing production, and a number of warehouses.
Hundreds of houses, businesses and warehouses were burnt down in the walled areas of both cities.
What a horrible waste of brain power to keep these harmless men and women warehoused for obscenely long terms!
Let us assume that a company plans to create a network of warehouses to supply its existing stores.
The tobacco leaf was later transported by licensed mule drivers from the production areas to the main consumption centres and stored at monopoly warehouses.
After the machinery arrived, no one was quite sure what to do with it, so it sat in warehouses.
Allowing strikebreakers or non-union members to work alongside them in the waterfront warehouses would defeat the very purpose of their organisational strategy.
Evers' concept of ' warehousing ' (1984) is apposite.
The enquiries into lace manufacture in 1861 (lace factories) and 1863 (children's and women's work generally, including warehouses) were both part of a wider process of factory act extension.
The 'lace market', a few streets with a high concentration of lace warehouses, provided important externalities in this ®ercely competitive, innovative and design- and fashion-led industry.
The second section considers the form and function of specific building types - shops, market halls, banks, warehouses and lodgings - again over a wide range of particular cities.
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Collocations withwarehouse

warehouse

These are words often used in combination with warehouse.

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abandoned warehouse
These lead them to an abandonedwarehouse in the middle of nowhere.
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