in open store

prepositional phrase

In uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. In uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.

    The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.

    1960 March 29, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214
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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in open store,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20open%20store.

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