warehousing

[ wair-hou-zing ]

noun

1. an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
2. the pledging as security, to a commercial bank, of a long-term mortgage for a short-term loan.

warehousing

/ ˈwɛəˌhaʊzɪŋ /

noun

1. stock exchange an attempt to maintain the price of a company's shares or to gain a significant stake in a company without revealing the true identity of the purchaser. Shares are purchased through an insurance company, a unit trust, or nominees

Word History and Origins

Origin of warehousing¹

First recorded in 1785–95; warehouse + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

But in places like Southern California, home to the largest warehousing and logistics operations in the U.S., that’s translated to more activity in the storage and movement of goods.

From Los Angeles Times

“All the low-hanging easy parcels for warehousing are pretty much all spoken for. And so the really big, deep-pockets developers now see opportunities to try and propose to go beyond the boundaries that have been put in place for decades,” said Jeffries, who is retiring after 12 years on the board.

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“The major industries impacted by this action will be local transportation and warehousing and imports of autos,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Bloomington is the latest Inland Empire community to weigh the tradeoffs of allowing a developer to bulldoze a rural neighborhood to make way for a sprawling warehousing complex in service of online shopping.

From Los Angeles Times

The local logistics industry has cooled since the pandemic, with warehousing and storage jobs shrinking for the first time in more than two decades and industrial building vacancies rising, according to an L.A.

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