(n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps he had thousands of works by forgotten artists he couldn't sell languishing in storerooms.
(2) Sitting in the storeroom in the Treasury that has now been transformed into his office, adorned with his choice of striking contemporary art, Myners insists that the £16.9m pension pot initially handed to former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin had been "cooked up" before he got involved in the brutal negotiations that fateful October weekend.
(3) The painting shows an old, weary man slumped in contemplation in his armchair and has spent more time in the National Gallery's storeroom than on display because it is attributed to a follower of Rembrandt rather than the artist himself.
(4) It’s a standing joke with me and my friends who are also wheelchair users when we go to a restaurant or bar and see that the disabled toilet isn’t usable because it is being used as a storeroom.
(5) In the meantime I was on a trolley, in an A&E cubicle that doubled as a storeroom, curled up in pain,” the MP recalled.
(6) However on Sunday the company involved denied any wrongdoing, claiming all that had been found was a sticky pad used to catch rats in a storeroom and this had snowballed into “exaggerated” reports that the pills contained rat poison.
(7) Shouting warnings in English, Flemish, French and German, he and his wife joined tourists who fled to an underground storeroom.
(8) Not to people with an interest in reading the book, but to librarians who would put it on a shelf and then, a few years later, probably bury it in a storeroom.
(9) People were filing into a storeroom lined floor to ceiling with donated tins, bread and nappies.
(10) When products are retained in the can, maintain storeroom at a low temperature above freezing.
(11) A nun who survived and was rescued by local residents said she hid inside a fridge in a storeroom after hearing a Yemeni guard shouting “run, run”.
(12) As a washer-dryer was wheeled out of the storeroom for a buyer, the crowd of consumers chanted, "Sí se puede!"
(13) The plot involved navy servicemen who hid in a storeroom that is usually left locked at the end of a day, with the aim of taking charge of the warship during the night, officials told the Guardian.
(14) It was like a storeroom, with scraps of metal lying all over the place."
(15) Research was carried out on the distribution of moulds on cereals in vegetation and in storerooms in the period from 1974 to 1981 and on ochratoxin (OA) in stored maize and wheat as well as residues of OA in the organs of swine in the nephropathic and non-nephropathic areas in the SR of Croatia, Yugoslavia.
(16) As nonlabor costs in health care increase disproportionately, changes in storeroom operations will become an important cost containment tool.
(17) Some of the dead have been kept in inflatable tents and in a refrigerated storeroom at a disused farmers' market in Paris.
(18) Many events are still threatening and undermining the improvement in supply chain risk; if the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa necessitates a tightening of international borders, the world will shrink, leaving storerooms empty and workers idle.
(19) The six have a storeroom full of rations and will eat the same meals as astronauts on the International Space Station, but these supplies must last the whole stay.
(20) Hossein Rabieh Salem, the 48-year-old owner, had been sleeping for several nights with his family of 18, above the storeroom and the live weapon.
Stowage
Definition:
(n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
(n.) Room in which things may be stowed.
(n.) The state of being stowed, or put away.
(n.) Things stowed or packed.
(n.) Money paid for stowing goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The abnormal mobility at the fracture site probably caused irregular baleen stowage within the oral cavity, leading to breakage of many baleen plates and extensive ulceration of the tongue and lips.
(2) Drying would be more efficient with two small hand towels, which would be easier to manipulate in microgravity and require less stowage volume.
(3) Each component is considered in relation to performance characteristics including rolling resistance, versatility, weight, comfort, stability, maneouvrability, transfer, stowage, durability and maintenance.