warehousing

[ wair-hou-zing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
the pledging as security, to a commercial bank, of a long-term mortgage for a short-term loan.

warehousing

/ ˈwɛəˌhaʊzɪŋ /

stock exchange an attempt to maintain the price of a company's shares or to gain a significant stake in a company without revealing the true identity of the purchaser. Shares are purchased through an insurance company, a unit trust, or nominees

First recorded in 1785–95; warehouse + -ing ¹

A company called Public Warehousing Company of Kuwait was already transporting military food into Iraq.

Jobs in the publishing world will shift away from old-line manufacturing and warehousing to technology, editorial, and creative.

Deposit, especially warehousing of grain, was charged for at one-sixtieth.

Hence in liming, bating, tanning, drying and in warehousing there are increased efforts to make a quicker turnover.

The goods are occasionally turned over to the customer for warehousing purposes against the so-called "trust receipt."

I see her warehousing three of them, the only varieties, in fact, that I know in my district.

Which, being translated, means of course generous warehousing rooms, of one sort or another.

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