Definition of "cold storage" [cold storage]

• Protective storage, as of foods or furs, in a refrigerated place. (noun)
• Informal A state of being held in abeyance. (noun)

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• "With respect to equipment, we are building silos, cold storage facilities, milling plants, feedlots, fertilizer mixing units, and workshops for upkeeping agricultural equipment and tractors."
• "An 'you'll see'm throw on the juice in that cold storage plant of his an' turn loose the prettiest scientific wallopin 'that ever you laid eyes on."
• "Even with the half-intelligent caterpillars to help, and with cold storage for meat, most of his time would still go to hunting."