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Petusek Posted 13 years ago
Business & Finance

stock unit/storage unit

Hello everyone,

What is the difference between a 'storage unit' and a 'stock unit', if there is any.

Many thanks in advance!

Best,

P.
  

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Absolutely, there is a difference. Here in The United States many people are very obsessed with gathering possessions, so many times they have so many possessions that there is no longer space for them in their homes. So, they rent a storage unit in order to store all these extra possessions.

  • Absolutely, there is a difference.
  • Here in The United States many people are very obsessed with gathering possessions, so many times they have so many possessions that there is no longer space for them in their homes.
  • So, they rent a storage unit in order to store all these extra possessions.
  • There is actually an American television show named "Storage Unit" that deals with what happens to all this junk if the person doesn't pay the bill.
  • A stock unit is the tax basis for evaluating farmers' stock, such as cattle, sheep, or pigs.
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Absolutely, there is a difference.

Here in The United States many people are very obsessed with gathering possessions, so many times they have so many possessions that there is no longer space for them in their homes. So, they rent a storage unit in order to store all these extra possessions. There is actually an American television show named "Storage Unit" that deals with wha
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Thanks a lot, Cynthia3754!

Actually, I thought those terms were related to stock control, warehouses and such.

You know, I've been looking for a term that would refer to a unit of storage space (at least that's how I understood it). What term could I use?

Again, many thanks!

Best,

P.
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If you are saying that you have several units together with outside access we simply refer to them as public storage facilities. For example:

You don't need to use the word public in this sentence.

I need to visit that storage facility out on Charlestown Road to see if they have any available units.

You would use public when you would make a statem
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I see. Now, it seems I may have been unclear as to what I was thinking of.

Having looked at some Wikipedia articles, I now think 'inventory unit' could be the right word, or maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Keeping_Unit (SKU) as suggested by Wikipedia.

What do you th
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I think that you are indeed a very astute student. It makes perfect sense to me, since it is more related to storage unit.

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