bonded warehouse

noun

1. a warehouse for goods held in bond by the government.

bonded warehouse

noun

1. a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export

Word History and Origins

Origin of bonded warehouse¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

The company has responded by "ring-fencing" enough alcohol in its bonded warehouse to meet anticipated demand for its alcohol sanitiser and infused spirits products until at least the end of the calendar year, including the Christmas period, the peak time for spirit sales.

From BBC

Day-to-day oversight by government agents has pretty much vanished over the years, but even today, for a spirit to be labeled “bottled in bond,” what’s in the bottle has to be made by one distillery during one distilling season, not adulterated with anything but water, aged in a federally bonded warehouse for no less than four years and bottled at 100 proof.

From Washington Post

"The Luxembourg freeport is the most controlled and transparent bonded warehouse in Europe, with 100% of the goods entering and exiting being checked and controlled by the customs and mandatory identification of all beneficiary owners. It is high time European politicians took actions to reinforce controls in the 16,000 other bonded warehouses in the EU, where little if no custom checks are taking place and no information about beneficiary owners," Mr Bouvier told the BBC.

From BBC

Now all we needed was to get the boxes out of a bonded warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times

The painting’s whereabouts are entirely unknown between 1928 and 1990, at which point it turned up, mysteriously, as so many others have done: in a bonded warehouse somewhere in Switzerland.

From Economist