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COLD STORAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cold storage mean? 

COLD STORAGE (noun)
  The noun COLD STORAGE has 2 senses:

1. in a state of abeyance or postponementplay

2. refrigerated storage for preservationplay

  Familiarity information: COLD STORAGE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLD STORAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a state of abeyance or postponement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cold storage" is a kind of...):

abeyance; suspension (temporary cessation or suspension)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Refrigerated storage for preservation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cold storage" is a kind of...):

storage (the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials)


 Context examples 


One of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new "cold storage" building; and as this suited the condition of a "new-fangled ware'us," I at once drove to it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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