warehouse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
2. n. A large, usually wholesale shop.
3. v. To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
4. v. To institutionalize (people) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent: "has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters” ( Justine Wise Polier).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A house in which wares or goods are kept; a storehouse.
2. n. Specifically— A store in which goods are placed for safe-keeping; a building for the temporary deposit of goods for a compensation.
3. n. A building for storing imported goods on which customs ducs have not been paid.
4. n. A store for the sale of goods at wholesale; also, often, a large retail establishment.
5. n. See the adjectives.
6. To deposit or secure in a warehouse; specifically, to place in the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

Wiktionary

1. n. A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
2. v. To store, as in a warehouse.
3. v. To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A storehouse for wares, or goods.
2. v. To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
3. v. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a storehouse for goods and merchandise
2. v. store in a warehouse