stores 1 of 2

noun

plural of store
1
as in reserves
a collection of things kept available for future use or need her husband has a store of old magazines that he has been collecting for years

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2
as in hoards
a supply stored up and often hidden away keeps a store of quarters in the glove compartment for the parking meters

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3
as in shops
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers go to the grocery store for orange juice and eggs

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4
as in loads
a considerable amount we laid by a store of food for the party

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stores

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of store
1
as in keeps
to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability we decided to store the lawn mower in the shed instead of the garage

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2
as in stashes
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place squirrels commonly store nuts in the hollows of trees and other places to prepare for the winter

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Recent Examples of stores
Noun
Sullivan lives in a small fishing town called Petersburg where there’s no traffic lights and no big-box stores. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 Blistering heat has also raised demand for air conditioning, driving up natural gas consumption at a time when stores need to be refilled ahead of winter. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Those tickets were sold at a 7-Eleven in Dedham and at Cumberland Farms stores in Attleboro and Granby. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 But phantom squatting targets anyone looking for advice about stores, banks, etc. — David Berreby, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026 The video then cuts to Viva posing in front of billboards and posters, including advertisements on the subway, clothing and hair ads, an app advertisement on a truck, a Pandora jewelry billboard and numerous advertisements for clothing stores. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026 Donations will help fill two new stores planned to open this year as Goodwill South Florida expands its retail footprint, according to Lithgow. — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026 The affected jalapeños were sourced from Coast Citrus Distributors and sent to restaurants in the United States, including Chipotle and Qdoba, which both pulled the ingredient from their stores nationwide, per the CDC. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026 Last year, she was named CEO of Ulta—the country’s largest beauty retailer with some 1,500 stores. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
Nine days earlier, OpenAI disclosed that its own models had broken out of a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the open machine learning world stores its models and datasets. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 CyberGuy previously reported that a Washington judge ruled Flock license plate reader images can qualify as public records, even when a private company stores the files for a city. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026 The vehicle also includes an onboard battery system that stores electrical energy and can provide exportable power at forward operating locations. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026 The surprisingly spacious material easily stores your essentials, including your phone, keys, wallet, sunglasses, and more. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026 Flock processes and stores data on the customer's behalf, with access and sharing controlled locally. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 8 July 2026 The work is being presented as the first report of a material that stores energy by physically rebuilding itself. — New Atlas, 3 July 2026 As of Tuesday morning, the fire at the Boyle Heights Storage Facility, which stores frozen food, is still ongoing, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Regalis stores it at 28 degrees to preserve its freshness. — The Editors, Robb Report, 20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stores
  1. reserves
  2. hoards
  3. shops
  4. loads
  5. keeps
  6. stashes
  7. supplies
  8. markets
Noun
  • Tehran’s ability to effectively close the strait — an open, untolled international waterway before the war started — triggered a global energy supply shock that drove up gas prices, exacerbated inflation and raised alarms about oil reserves.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Venezuela benefited from a vast supply of oil reserves and thrived economically until the price of oil collapsed in the 1980s.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of reserves
Noun
  • Earlier this spring, two hobbyist treasure hunters uncovered one of the largest Viking coin hoards ever found in Norway after discovering dozens of silver coins in a field.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • Though bronze objects had been found previously, with other Wendel rings reported surfacing nearby, neck rings are typically found buried with other goods or in hoards.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026
Definition of hoards
Noun
  • The original location was recently named one of the best slice shops in the country and its creators were named among the top pizzamakers in the world to watch.
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026
  • SoCal is home to three shops, and Denver is the first out-of-state location.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of shops
Noun
  • The type of helicopter that crashed can carry heavy loads and is commonly used in firefighting operations, with the ability to carry a more than 2,000-gallon tank.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026
  • When temperatures exceed 110°F, passenger planes must consider lightening their loads.
    — John Vaillant, Time, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of loads
Verb
  • Connecticut Coalition for Pretrial Justice formed to press for reform of the cash bail system in Connecticut, something the group said keeps people behind bars not based on safety concerns but on their ability to pay.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The timeline keeps changing while this community is left waiting.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of keeps
Verb
  • This one stashes easily in a bag, adds a warming layer while in flight, can be worn as a scarf, and adds a dressy element to even casual looks.
    — Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The larger case easily stows a Kindle or iPad Mini, power bank, digital camera, earbuds, and more; the smaller one stashes cords and adapters.
    — Morgan Ashley Parker, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026
Definition of stashes
Noun
  • Tehran also responded by effectively shutting down tanker and cargo traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one-fifth of global oil supplies usually transit.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Before the war, an average of 120 vessels crossed the crucial waterway, through which one-fifth of global oil supplies used to travel, every day.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplies
Noun
  • The war in Iran has jolted gas and diesel markets with little end in sight.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The project will be the first time gas from east Mediterranean deposits is supplied to European markets.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of markets

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“Stores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stores. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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