Noun when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise
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Noun
Gateway Tire is expanding its Dothan distribution hub, investing $9 million into a 100,000-square-foot addition to its warehouse. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022 America's second-largest employer fought hard against unionization efforts at its Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse.CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022 Every minute will count when your warehouse is working at maximum capacity. Gary Drenik, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 My family had splintered, my mother living behind the closed door of her bedroom and my father practically sleeping at his warehouse.New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022 That poses a level of uncertainty for the organization, where 90% of food within its warehouse is typically donated, not purchased. Natasha Chen, CNN, 28 July 2022 Also, the Urban Ecology Center wants to convert its warehouse, at 1500 E. Park Place, into Riverland Event Hall. Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2022 The Tribune uses the tunnels to transport rolls of newsprint 1,400 feet from its warehouse on North Water Street to the printing plant in Tribune Tower.Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 Scott Jenkins, a Republican who was upset that a local ordinance compelled him to plant a lawn around his plumbing wholesale warehouse in Orem, filed a bill to curb such mandates. Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 June 2022
Verb
Most of America’s libraries were created after the Industrial Revolution radically lowered the cost of books, which turned library design into a storage problem—how to warehouse a ceaseless stream of new volumes. Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 27 July 2022 In one example, a builder worked with a dealer to order a large inventory of windows that the dealer would warehouse and that would allow the builder to continue to produce instead of waiting for the long lead times. Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 19 May 2022 Amazon, for its part, has conveyed its anti-union stance to warehouse workers through signage inside its warehouses, text messages, and meetings that workers were required to attend before the election periods kicked off. Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022 Some offers are aimed at filling openings that have languished in Europe since the reopening of economies after coronavirus lockdowns, in industries ranging from health care in Germany to warehouse work in the Czech Republic.New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022 Now, the official purpose of incarceration was retribution only; the unofficial purpose was to warehouse the nation’s poor. Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022 At the time, California’s state prisons were at 200 percent capacity: 160,000 people living in facilities meant to warehouse 80,000. Piper French, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2022 Sydneysiders are facing empty shelves at some supermarkets as exploding coronavirus cases force a range of staff from truck drivers to warehouse workers into isolation. Swati Pandey, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022 In the aughts, state and local governments started to build towards this, but efforts largely lost momentum without the funding needed to build and maintain the infrastructure to warehouse such huge troves of data. Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 June 2021 See More