Putaway vs Castaway - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between putaway and castaway

is that putaway is the process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received while castaway is a shipwrecked sailor.

cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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The process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received.

* 2005 , Steven M. Bragg, Inventory accounting: a comprehensive guide (page 73)

If a putaway is done incorrectly, it is difficult to find an item, or verify that an incorrect part number or quantity has been used.

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Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

Shipwrecked.

The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

(en noun)

(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .

A discarded person or thing.

This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

These homeless people are society's castaways .

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