shopping center

noun

1. a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping center¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

“If you ask my family what I’m like, I would stop in the middle of a shopping center and look at myself in the mirror,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

She landed at LAX but missed her next flight, appearing instead to visit the Grove shopping center, where she went to a Nike event on Nov. 10, her family told USA Today.

From Los Angeles Times

He said the fire also damaged a Fat Sal’s deli and the Sushi Ajito restaurant, which are next door to the auto parts store in the small shopping center.

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The California Teachers Assn., in which the Chino union is a chapter, has become increasingly involved supporting more liberal-leaning candidates, including at a teachers rally held last week outside a Temecula shopping center.

From Los Angeles Times

These frictions have intensified in an age when lone-wolf gunmen, driven by racist manifestos and desires for publicity, have attacked shopping centers, supermarkets and schools.

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