Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Cold store may refer to:
- Also known as a cool store, a warehouse the interior of which is maintained at below ambient temperature, typically well below freezing point.
- A convenience store in the Middle East especially in Bahrain where they are air-conditioned
- "Cold Store", an episode from the British sitcom Are You Being Served?
Usage examples of "cold store".
With it came a sudden fall in temperature, as if we had stepped into a cold store.
Around the cold store were ten centimetres of fibreglass wool insulation.
All these men messed and slept amongst a maze of pipes and wiring as is common in all submarines, but she was well equipped for the tropics with good air conditioning and a very large cold store.
After a brief service conducted by Sophie, his body joins that of Greg Fox in cold store.
I ransacked packing-cases and capsules, and when we reached the lower deck I was unable to resist looking into the cold store.
There was a lot of vaginal mutilation, although the girl's stomach was not marked with the two downward cuts from cold store meat hooks and Rosetti didn't think they'd find any ice residue in the blood.
The briefing room was a cold store, and it still smelled of food and spices.
But whatever effect his words might have had was cancelled by the sight of the two ambulance men slamming shut the rear doors of their vehicle and securing them with a set of levers and bolts that seemed better suited to a bank or a cold store.
If he'd stayed at the club they would have got him and he would have joined the six corpses in the Oven Man's cold store.
The next time I have reason to rebuke you, I will be speaking to meat on a hook in my cold store.