Definition of Store

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Definition of Store

Store

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

Accumulated; hoarded.

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

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Store Quotations

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
Steven Wright

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
Steven Wright

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
Steven Wright

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
Rodney Dangerfield

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Alan Greenspan

Store Translations

store in Afrikaans is winkel
store in Danish is butik
store in Dutch is winkel
store in German is aufbewahren, speichern, Vorrat, Warenhaus
store in Italian is immagazzinare, campeggio, immagazzinare
store in Latin is recondo
store in Norwegian is butikk, forretning
store in Portuguese is loja
store in Spanish is almacenar, reten, silo, tienda

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