Meaning & use
warehousing
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Meanings
noununcountablebusiness
The business or practice of keeping goods in large storage buildings until they are needed or sold.
Grammar: No plural and no article needed: warehousing is expensive, not a warehousing.
Patterns
- warehousing of something
- warehousing costs
Rising warehousing costs forced the retailer to raise its prices.
The company offers shipping, packing and warehousing under one contract.
Online shopping has increased demand for warehousing near big cities.
noununcountablebusinessfigurative
The practice of holding on to something, such as property, shares or people, for later use instead of using it now.
Grammar: Often with of: the warehousing of land, not a warehousing land.
Patterns
- warehousing of something
Critics accused the developer of warehousing land to wait for higher prices.
The warehousing of unsold homes kept the market tight.
Common combinations
- warehousing costs
- Warehousing costs rose after the new rent agreement.
- warehousing and distribution
- She works in warehousing and distribution for a food firm.
- warehousing facility
- The firm built a new warehousing facility near the port.
- automated warehousing
- Automated warehousing lets robots fetch the boxes.
- cold warehousing
- Cold warehousing is needed for frozen goods.
Synonyms and how they differ
- storage
- Storage is the general word for keeping anything, while warehousing specifically means commercial storage of goods in large buildings.
- stockpiling
- Stockpiling means building up a large reserve in case of need, whereas warehousing is the routine, organized storing of stock.
- stockholding
- Stockholding focuses on the stock a business owns, while warehousing focuses on the space and the work of storing it.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: warehousing or housing?
warehousing vs housing
Housing means places for people to live. Warehousing means storing goods, not people.
Practice
Which job would be part of the company's warehousing operation?
Choose one answer.
Warehousing is about storing goods in large buildings, so handling pallets of stock fits. The other jobs are business tasks but not storage.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “warehousing”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.