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   warehouse

   /ˈwɛːhaʊs/

   noun

   • 1. a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.
   • ▪ a large wholesale or retail store: "a discount warehouse"

   verb

   • 1. store (goods) in a warehouse: "the pallets were warehoused the following day"
   • ▪ place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of import duty.
   • 2. place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed: informal North American "our objective is not to warehouse prisoners but to help inmates build new lives"

   Scrabble Points: 15

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   • A

     1

   • R

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   • E

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   • H

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   • O

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   • U

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   • S

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   • E

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