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# warehouse

«warehouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large building where goods are stored before they are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a warehouse, warehouses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A warehouse is a large building where goods are stored before they are sold or sent to shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#m1)

2) A warehouse can be a big shop selling large amounts of goods cheaply. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, online orders are packed in warehouses; in geography and business lessons, warehouses store goods near roads and ports. In maths word problems, warehouses hold boxes and crates: «a warehouse has 40 shelves with 20 boxes each». Phrases: warehouse worker, store in a warehouse.

### examples

- The toys are kept in a big warehouse before they go to the shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x1)
- Robots move boxes around in the warehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x2)
- A warehouse has 40 shelves with 20 boxes on each, so 800 boxes in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x3)
- My uncle works in a warehouse driving a forklift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x4)
- The old warehouse by the river is now flats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x5)
- Forklifts can be dangerous, so children must not play near a warehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warehouse/#x6)

### note

Plural: warehouses. One word: ware (goods) + house. Related: storehouse, depot, storeroom. In maths, warehouse problems usually use multiplication (shelves × boxes) or division (sharing among trucks).

### In the corpora

- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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