warehouse

UK: /ˈwɛə^rhaʊs/

US: /n. ˈwɛrˌhaʊs; v. -ˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs/

US: (n. wâr′hous′; v. wâr′houz′, -hous′)

Inflections of 'warehouse' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

warehouses

v 3rd person singular

warehousing

v pres p

warehoused

v past

warehoused

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ware•house /n. ˈwɛrˌhaʊs; v. -ˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs/   n., v., -housed, -hous•ing. 
n. [countable]

1. Business a building for the storage of goods or merchandise.

v. [~ + object]

2. Business to place, deposit, or store in a warehouse:
   to warehouse goods.
3. Sociology to confine (the mentally ill, the aged, etc.) in large institutions.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ware•house  (n. wâr′hous′;v. wâr′houz′, -hous′), n., pl. -hous•es (-hou′ziz), v., -housed, -hous•ing. 
n. 

1. Business a building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.
2. British Terms a large retail store.
3. Business a building, or a part of one, in which wholesalers keep large stocks of merchandise, which they display and sell to retailers.

v.t. 

4. Business to place, deposit, or store in a warehouse.
5. Communications to set aside or accumulate, as for future use.
6. to place in a government or bonded warehouse, to be kept until duties are paid.
7. Psychiatry, Informal Terms [Informal.] to confine (the mentally ill) to large institutions for long-term custodial care.

• 1300–50; Middle English; see ware¹, house

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

warehouse noun / ˈwɛəˌhaʊs/

1. a place where goods are stored prior to their use, distribution, or sale
2. See bonded warehouse
3. a large commercial, esp wholesale, establishment

verb / ˈwɛəˌhaʊz -ˌhaʊs/

1. (transitive) to store or place in a warehouse, esp a bonded warehouse