Meaning & use
stockroom
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Meaning
nouncountable
A room in a shop, office or factory where extra goods or supplies are stored until needed.
Grammar: Takes a plural: the stockrooms were full.
Patterns
- in the stockroom
- the stockroom of somewhere
The clerk went to the stockroom to find another size.
Boxes of paper filled the office stockroom.
She worked in the stockroom of a hardware store.
Word forms
| plural | stockrooms |
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Common combinations
- in the stockroom
- The new shirts are still in the stockroom.
- stockroom clerk
- The stockroom clerk counts every delivery.
- stockroom shelves
- Stockroom shelves were stacked to the ceiling.
- back stockroom
- The back stockroom holds seasonal decorations.
- check the stockroom
- Let me check the stockroom for that item.
Synonyms and how they differ
- storeroom
- Storeroom is the closest synonym but can be any room for storing things, not only goods for sale.
- warehouse
- A warehouse is a much larger building, usually separate from the shop.
- backroom
- Backroom is an informal word for a room at the back that may hold goods or private meetings.
- depot
- A depot is a larger storage center, often for transport and distribution.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: stockroom or showroom? stockroom or storeroom?
stockroom vs showroom
A showroom is where goods are displayed to customers; a stockroom is hidden storage.
stockroom vs storeroom
Storeroom can store anything, while stockroom is specifically for stock of goods.
Practice
The shop assistant went to the ___ to fetch more jackets because the shelves were empty.
Choose one answer.
A stockroom holds extra goods out of sight. A showroom displays goods to customers, so it would not hold spare stock.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “stockroom”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.