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Storage

noun

The act of storing something.

A depository for goods. Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse.

The commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials.

(computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk.

An electronic memory device. Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store.

Depositing in a warehouse. Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing. "My car is in storage" , "Publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"

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... This proves that if the Duc de Bassano and General Hogendorp, to whom the Emperor had confided, in June, the administration of Lithuania, had done their job properly during the long period which they spent at Wilna, they could have created large storage depots; but they were interested only in supplying the town, without ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... was the usual custom, was derived, like most privileges of foreigners, from the gift of the king. Little by little they had purchased property surrounding their original grants until they had a great group of buildings, including a meeting and dining hall, tower, kitchen, storage house, offices and other warehouses, and a considerable number of dwelling-houses, all enclosed by a wall and fences. It was located immediately on the Thames just above London Bridge so that their ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

... course not, you wretched materialist. I sold it in the first good market I came to. No good ever came of material possessions, and always much payment of storage bills. But I have a collection of memories that I am ...

— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... the construction of a storage dam opposite Eagle, New Mexico, across the Rio Grande River will irrigate one hundred and eighty thousand acres of land in New Mexico, Texas, ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

... Fredericksburg by spreading lines of striped cheese-cloth, miles of it, along a rugged valley. His aeroplane scouts couldn't make out what that cheese-cloth was for; they thought it might be some new kind of electrocution storage battery, so the whole ...

— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett

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