(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.
Workshop
Definition:
(n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the small ceramic workshops in the Gouda region, simple pneumoconiosis is still commonly present (13.3%), whereas the silicosis prevalence in the highly mechanized industries is low (1.7%).
(2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(3) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(4) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(5) This workshop highlighted the progress that has been made since 1909, the year that Ignatowski put forward that animal proteins in the diet can induce atherosclerosis in rabbits.
(6) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(7) Five subtypic specificities of Bw22 were defined using 38 informative local and Seventh Histocompatibility Workshop sera: Bw54, 22.2, J2, Bw42, and a new Bw22 associated antigen Te90.
(8) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
(9) The CD4-specific mAbs submitted to the workshop reacted with the cells of all animals tested.
(10) Possible explanations have included the exposure to viruses, radiation, nutrition, and pesticides, and these issues are addressed by other presentations in this workshop.
(11) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
(12) HRQ scores rose significantly following a 2-day workshop on active listening and crisis intervention skills offered in 14 communities.
(13) However, participation in the workshop program changed in a significant way their explanatory patterns in the direction of more participatory ones.
(14) It has not been possible in this review to cover all the submitted posters nor indeed all the points discussed during the workshop session.
(15) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
(16) A three-hour, two-stage workshop for staff nurses on providing patient education and psychosocial support was evaluated in terms of its effects on patient welfare and recovery.
(17) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(18) Previously identified workshop specificities ELA-W14, W15 and W19 were accepted as products of the ELA-A locus based on family and population studies by the workshop.
(19) There were no statistically significant differences between UAD and FSRC in the use of POMR for medical audit, the need for formal workshops to orient staff to POMR concepts, the advantages of POMR, and the principal reason an institution was not using POMR.
(20) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.