ware·house (wâr'hous')
n.

1. A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.
2. A large, usually wholesale shop.

tr.v., -housed, -hous·ing, -hous·es. (also -houz')

1. To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.
2. 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).

warehouser ware'hous'er (-hou'zər) n.

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