noun
- A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
- usage: "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
- synonyms: shop
- A supply of something available for future use.
- usage: "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
- An electronic memory device.
- usage: "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- synonyms: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, memory board
- A depository for goods.
- usage: "storehouses were built close to the docks"
- synonyms: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage
verb
- Keep or lay aside for future use.
- usage: "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
- synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
- Find a place for and put away for storage.
- usage: "where should we stow the vegetables"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"
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