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Webster 1913 Edition


Warehousing

Ware′housˊing

,
Noun.
The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Warehousing system
,
an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reexported, they are not charged with a duty. See
Bonded warehouse
, under
Bonded
,
Adj.

Webster 1828 Edition


Warehousing

WAREHOUSING

,
ppr.
Repositing in a store for safe keeping.

Definition 2024


warehousing

warehousing

English

Noun

warehousing (plural warehousings)

  1. The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
    • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
      [] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
    • 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 90:
      Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable.

Translations

Verb

warehousing

  1. present participle of warehouse