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Warehousing vs Stockyard - What's the difference?

warehousing | stockyard |

As nouns the difference between warehousing and stockyard

is that warehousing is the act of storing goods in a warehouse while stockyard is an enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.

As a verb warehousing

is {{present participle of |warehouse|lang=en}.

warehousing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
  • * 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
    • at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings , handlings, &c.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 90:
  • *:Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • stockyard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.