Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warehouse \Ware"house`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warehoused; p. pr. & vb. n. Warehousing.]
To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
Warehousing \Ware"hous`ing\, n. The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If re["e]xported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.
Wiktionary
n. The act of storing goods in a warehouse. vb. (present participle of warehouse English)
WordNet
n. depositing in a warehouse [syn: repositing, reposition, storage]
Usage examples of "warehousing".
First, the market for my rather specialized stock is limited, and my available funds for increasing inventories are equally limited, as is my warehousing space.
For this reason, certain conventions were observed for the benefit of city inspectors, who would otherwise be forced to acknowledge that the illegal second- and third-floor apartments were not used for warehousing, or as design lofts.
His assignment to Mcnair after the incident in Germany had been a deliberate warehousing job, under the guise of a humane convalescent assignment.
Pentagon report also criticized the NSA for wasting millions of dollars on warehousing old magnetic tapes, failing to manage properly its highly secret special-access programs, and not adequately measuring whether the intelligence being collected matched the intelligence that was being asked for.
Distributors, publishers and record companies also provide logistical support: warehousing, consolidated sales reporting and transaction auditing, and a single, periodic payment.
Chung and Three Oaths Tsun have the shipping and warehousing industries just about sewn up here.
Manticore's tolls were among the lowest in the galaxy, but simple logistics meant they generated enormous total revenues, and the Kingdom served as a central warehousing and commercial node for hundreds of other worlds.
Manticores tolls were among the lowest in the galaxy, but simple logistics meant they generated enormous total revenues, and the Kingdom served as a central warehousing and commercial node for hundreds of other worlds.