(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.
Warehousing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse
(n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Example Sentences:
(1) To address the crisis, the government began simply warehousing these children in camps at US border patrol facilities and on military bases in Texas, Arizona and California.
(2) Medicaid often provides the money for services to keep people in their homes and in the community, an essential step forward from the past in which people were “warehoused” in facilities largely separate from society.
(3) ILF recipient Kevin Caulfield said: "Changes brought in by this government herald the end of independent living for disabled people and the return to a segregated society where disabled people are warehoused away.
(4) The workers who help get products to market are legion, from those on the commodity level – in mineral and metal mines, in the agricultural fields – up through processing, manufacturing, warehousing, and transport.
(5) The new company will clearly be looking at economies of scale, not just in warehousing, printing and finance systems, but eventually in editorial output.
(6) Australia’s unhinged border protection debate has seen people who have committed no crime warehoused in indefinite detention in offshore immigration detention.
(7) "As our social worker said, it's just warehousing for kids."
(8) The budget retailer, owned by Associated British Foods, will open its first store in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2015 and said it was in negotiations to open up to eight further stores in north-east America, with warehousing to support them.
(9) Now we have tens of thousands of kids at the border, with legions warehoused in makeshift camps, stuck in a labyrinthine legal system alone and grasping for sanctuary.
(10) "This judgment opens the door to warehousing older people in their own homes without regard to their quality of life.
(11) This has disproportionately affected roles in the middle of the income distribution – such as manufacturing, warehousing and administrative roles.
(12) At the heart of these family-sized support models is a strengths- or capabilities-based approach, which believes people who need support also have something to offer those around them, and shouldn't be warehoused away from their communities.
(13) There is a real hypocrisy in the fact we have two royal commissions currently afoot – one into institutional child sexual abuse and another into youth detention centres – and yet at the very same time we’re warehousing children on Nauru in conditions that allow this kind of abuse to thrive.” 'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry Read more The Australian Council for International Development and the Australian Council of Social Service said the current royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse should immediately examine incidents and allegations raised in the Nauru files.
(14) This is the latest in a whole series of reports and investigations that have found very serious issues with Bureau of Prisons shadow systems of private prisons,” said Carl Takei, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s national private prison project and one of the authors of the 2014 report Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants Trapped In Our Shadow Private Prison System, which investigated contract prisons in Texas.
(15) Employment in wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, financial acivities, and leisure and hospitality changed little.
(16) Alongside jobs at senior management level and banking he has also applied for taxi driving, warehousing jobs and baggage handling at nearby Stansted Airport.
(17) Prison reform campaigners are sceptical about the benefits of “warehousing” large numbers of prisoners together, and point to evidence showing that smaller prisons perform better in terms of safety and reducing reoffending.
(18) Transportation and warehousing also showed large gains.
(19) There is a real hypocrisy in the fact we have two royal commissions currently afoot – one into institutional child sexual abuse and another into youth detention centres – and yet at the very same time we’re warehousing children on Nauru in conditions that allow this kind of abuse to thrive.” De Kretser said there needed to be a full inquiry but the safety of people on the islands or at risk of being sent to the islands was the first priority.
(20) If proven refugees are still being warehoused on Nauru or Manus Island at the end of the year, they should be resettled in Australia.” Brennan told the Guardian that while some in the refugee advocacy community would oppose any position that maintained boat interdictions and turnbacks, it was a solution that would allow for the camps on Nauru and Manus Island to be emptied.