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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cold storage
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As might be expected this is accelerated by heat, making cold storage essential.
▪ He aims to please even if it means putting his principles in cold storage and his policies in the mixer.
▪ I can hear them rumble into cold storage down the coal chute.
▪ Like the political career of the man who envisioned it, the satellite may face a prolonged period in cold storage.
▪ That includes the cost of vaccines needles, syringes and cold storage.
▪ The project went into cold storage, periodically resurfacing over the next six years only to sink once more.
WordNet
cold storage

  1. n. in a state of abeyance or postponement

  2. refrigerated storage for preservation

Wikipedia
Cold storage

Cold storage may refer to:

  • A form of refrigerated storage
  • Secure offline storage of computer data
  • CoLD SToRAGE, an alias of the musician Tim Wright
  • Cold Storage (supermarket), a supermarket found in Singapore and Malaysia
  • Computer output to laser disc (COLD), a method of data storage and retrieval
  • Cold Storage, a 1951 animated short film starring Disney's Pluto
  • "Cold Storage", a 2012 4-part webisode series for The Walking Dead TV series
  • Cold Storage, a location in the video game Pokémon Black and White
Cold Storage (supermarket)

Cold Storage is a supermarket chain in Singapore, owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings.

It operates three supermarket brands in Singapore and Malaysia; Cold Storage (in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia), Market Place (in Singapore) and Giant Hypermarket (in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam and UAE).

Cold Storage was the first supermarket of Singapore to offer its merchandise online in 1997. The number of regular customers has since then grown from 6,000 in 1998 to more than 15,000 in 2012.

Usage examples of "cold storage".

They pretended to hunt, spearing pieces of meat from the cold storage chambers, and cooked it.

She took an involuntary step backward, coming up short as the small of her back rammed into the cold storage box.

Until he remembered the stark horror of what Chalkin had done at the borders and in the cold storage cells.

He jerked his thumb at some of the stretcher-bearers who had previously been the 'cold storage' guards.

If he does, and you're gone, he'll raise a hue and cry immediately: if you're still here he'll reckon that you can be left in cold storage for a while.

One of those doors was open and a naked man lay on a gurney that had been pulled from the cold storage drawer there.

She holds ghost-memories of his embrace, a smoky affair that might have happened in real space if his instant reaction to realizing that it could happen hadn't been to dump the splinter of his mind that was contaminated by impure thoughts to cold storage and deny everything.

When full-grown they will be removed from me and placed in cold storage until the time comes to use them.

The thing that mattered was that she had been left here in cold storage—.

I had as much to do with pulling Oliver Guest out of cold storage as you did.