WAREHOUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warehousing mean? 

• WAREHOUSING (noun)
  The noun WAREHOUSING has 1 sense:

1. depositing in a warehouse

  Familiarity information: WAREHOUSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAREHOUSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Depositing in a warehouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

repositing; reposition; storage; warehousing

Context example:

publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing

Hypernyms ("warehousing" is a kind of...):

deposit; deposition (the act of putting something somewhere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warehousing"):

stockpiling (accumulating and storing a reserve supply)

Derivation:

warehouse (store in a warehouse)

 Context examples 

An authorized person who is appointed to audit and officially inspect the warehousing, prescribing, dispensing, distribution, administration and documentation practices related to utilization of investigational agent(s) within a clinical study or/and institution, in order to confirm the strict drug(s) accountability and to ensure patients safety and the clinical site compliance with protocol(s) and federal drug laws and regulations.

(Agent Inspector, NCI Thesaurus)