cold storage

1. 1.

   in a state of abeyance or postponement

   Broaderabeyance
2. 2.

   refrigerated storage for preservation

   Broaderstorage

Questions about cold storage

What does cold storage mean?

cold storage means "in a state of abeyance or postponement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cold storage a common word?

cold storage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.