Hoiustuse

Hoiustuse is an Estonian term referring to the act of storing or the condition of assets that have been stored. It can denote a storage arrangement, a depot, or the concept of custody of items or data. The word is derived from the verb hoidma ("to keep") and the suffix -use that forms abstract nouns in Estonian. In practice, hoiustuse appears in various technical and legal contexts, often within compound expressions such as hoiustuse tingimused (terms of storage), hoiustuse tasu (storage fee), or hoiustuse garantiid (custodial guarantees).

In finance, hoiustuse is linked to the concept of deposits, where funds are held by a bank or another custodian on behalf of a customer. In information technology, it can refer to data storage or cloud storage services. In logistics and warehousing, hoiustus denotes the storage of goods in a facility until they are needed or shipped.

The term is typically used in Estonian-language texts and is less common in English, where equivalents such as storage, deposit, or custodian arrangements are used depending on context. See also: storage, deposit, warehousing, data storage, custodianship.