n. A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.n. A large, usually wholesale shop.v. To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.v. To institutionalize (people) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent: "has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters” ( Justine Wise Polier).