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# storeroom

«storeroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **kept until they are needed, such as supplies, equipment…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a storeroom, storerooms)

### meaning for a pupil

A room where things are kept until they are needed, such as supplies, equipment or food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Schools, shops, hospitals and restaurants have storerooms for books, cleaning things, sports kit and stock. In stories a storeroom may be dark, dusty and full of forgotten things. In maths it appears in stock problems: how many boxes are in the storeroom. Phrases: «in the storeroom», «a storeroom full of».

### examples

- The PE balls are kept in the storeroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x1)
- Please fetch some paper from the storeroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x2)
- The shop's storeroom is full of boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x3)
- We found old toys in the storeroom at the back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x4)
- The storeroom has 12 shelves with 15 tins on each, so 180 tins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x5)
- Only staff may go into the storeroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x6)
- It was dark and dusty in the storeroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x7)
- The chulan is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/#x8)

### note

One word in British English, often two («store room») or «stockroom» elsewhere. Americans may say «storage room» or «supply closet». Countable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «storeroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storeroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.