strongroom

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noun

A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.

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Meanings

nounstrongroom (plural strongrooms)

plural strongrooms · alternative strong room

  1. A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.

    All of Sellafield is in a holding pattern, trying to keep waste safe until it can be consigned to the ultimate strongroom: the geological disposal facility (GDF), bored hundreds of metres into the Earth’s rock, a project that could cost another £53bn.

    December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Origin

strong + room

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APA

strongroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strongroom

MLA

“strongroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strongroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strongroom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strongroom.

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