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department store

noun

  1. a large retail store carrying a wide variety of merchandise and organized into various departments for sales and administrative purposes.


department store

noun

  1. a large shop divided into departments selling a great many kinds of goods
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of department store1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

In 1974, 75 members of the group descended on a Copenhagen department store.

The chants continued in front of the high-end department store.

A department store piano melody plays in the background while he admires everything he can see.

She loses them briefly in a department store, but finds them a few moments later, and the incident is never mentioned again.

Ede was the type after which some department store advertising-department diplomat had coined the term "stylish stout."

I don't know anything; I can only presume that he doesn't intend to open a department store in the Everglades.

She had not conducted them to a department store, but to the small shop of a decidedly exclusive children's outfitter.

And she gave me a note to a department store which will probably take me on.

This Chinaman had established in Singapore the kind of store which we in America think we invented—the department store.

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