(v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
(3) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(4) Since then he has been chairman of tobacco company Gallaher, music company EMI and fashion retailer New Look and as well as Carphone Warehouse.
(5) Zen topped the table with 86%, followed by Utility Warehouse on 81%.
(6) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
(7) This part of Paris has come to life again since Bercy’s historic wine warehouses were saved from demolition and converted into boutiques, bars and restaurants – and the Cinémathèque is the cultural heart, with its permanent collection, film festivals and exhibitions.
(8) In the meantime, local MPs are to visit the company’s warehouse on 21 March, an invitation the tycoon also extended to members of parliament’s business, innovation and skills select committee.
(9) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(10) The 80 or so permanent warehouse staff believe they were not properly consulted before being laid off.
(11) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(12) Dixons' boss, Sebastian James, will be chief executive, while Andrew Harrison of Carphone Warehouse becomes his deputy.
(13) Andrew Harrison, chief executive of the Carphone Warehouse, and the exclusive independent stockist of the iPhone in the UK, said: "The impact of the iPhone on our industry has been huge, raising the technological bar and forcing other manufacturers and operators to reconsider their strategies."
(14) Other Labour sources pointed out that the founder of Carphone Warehouse has donated £150,000 to the Tories and is a friend of many senior Tories.
(15) Warsaw said on Sunday that a decision whether to station heavy US equipment at warehouses in Poland would be taken soon.
(16) The multimillionaire Carphone Warehouse co-founder Ross was expected to be chosen.
(17) Websites affected by the attack include OneStopPhoneShop.co.uk, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk, and Carphone Warehouse also provides services to TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile, and to its own recently launched iD mobile network.
(18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
(19) For two and a half years the faxes disappeared into the inner workings of Paisley Park (which, it turned out, actually looked like a B&Q warehouse), unacknowledged, unanswered, and, for all we knew, unseen.
(20) The sale follows the announcement on Monday from Carphone Warehouse that it was pulling the plug on its Best Buy chain.
Warehouseman
Definition:
(n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
(n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) A warehouseman aged 31 working in a pharmaceutical factory got an occupational contact dermatitis to virginiamycin (factor M), an antibiotic used as a food additive for pigs and poultry.
(2) Differences according to occupational category are very important: between the occupations the most prone to absence, those of "switchboard operator", "mechanics driver" and "warehouseman" and the ones least exposed "managerial staff" and "skilled technician and upper management", the ratio for the prevalences was 10.
(3) The inclusion of Kelman – a former warehouseman, care worker and local government administrator – will give hope to budding novelists.