stowages

noun

plural of stowage
1
as in spaces

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2
as in depositories

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stowages
  1. areas
  2. depositories
  3. room
  4. repositories
  5. storages
  6. warehouses
  7. containers
  8. storehouses
Noun
  • Steer clear of puddles - Driving into puddles or low areas of rainwater can cause vehicles to hydroplane or skid out of control.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
  • Avoid puddles - Driving into puddles or low rainwater areas can lead to vehicles hydroplaning or losing control.
    — STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of depositories
Noun
  • While working on the Venezuela rescue mission, Short and the other team members were recently firing up a smoker for burgers and roasted potatoes in the kitchen a floor below their conference room.
    — Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The ruins of Dungeness, a 59-room, 37,000-square-foot estate house dating to the mid-1880s, once owned by Thomas Carnegie, brother and business partner of Pittsburgh steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
    — Jennifer Peebles, AJC.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of room
Noun
  • Human resource systems, learning platforms, credential repositories, and talent management tools generate continuous streams of data across the enterprise.
    — Michael Edmondson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The breadth of the acquisition represented by the two gifts establishes the Menil Collection as one of the most substantial repositories of Winters’ work in the United States, the museum said.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 29 June 2026
Definition of repositories
Noun
  • It’s also not being caused exclusively by ongoing RAM and shortage storages—new MacBook Pros with 128GB of RAM and large SSDs will arrive within two or three weeks of being ordered.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Bellingcat, which uses open source data, said a video shared by a migrant worker shows what appears to be an Iranian drone hitting fuel storages in the emirate of Fujairah in early March.
    — NPR Staff, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of storages
Noun
  • New Sam’s Club warehouses in Baytown, Katy, Tomball and Weslaco will give more Texas shoppers access to bulk discounts, gas stations and pharmacy services.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • While Ishmael may pause before coffin-warehouses—coffins, of all sorts, become a major leitmotif of the novel—or even talk of committing suicide, his tone is wry, even ironic.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Definition of warehouses
Noun
  • Since its launch, the company has diversified into logistics, fuel delivery, and transport, including hauling containers from Cuban ports to different provinces.
    — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Pickle Robot's system unloads boxes from trailers or containers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of containers
Noun
  • The avant-garde architect Kiyonori Kikutake designed the structure as a modern homage to the Edo period takayuka-shiki souko (storehouses built on stilts).
    — Jonathan DeLise, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Although that effort met resistance after the outbreak of Syria’s civil war as Israel began to regularly conduct strikes on weapons storehouses in Syria and on convoys facilitated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran still managed to keep Hezbollah armed.
    — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2025
Definition of storehouses
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