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variety store

noun

  1. a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of variety store1

An Americanism dating back to 1760–70
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Idioms and Phrases

A retail shop that carries a large selection of usually inexpensive merchandise, as in What this town needs is a good variety store . [Second half of 1700s]
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Example Sentences

Some items fell off the shelves at Will and Grace Filipino Variety Store in Naalehu.

Variety store chain Family Dollar is reckoning with a major headache after recalling Advil products shipped and stored at the wrong temperature over 10 months.

It may be tempting to cast that life in terms that emphasize his own humility: He grew up in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, the son of middle-class immigrants from Guyana who ran a variety store.

He was accused of passing a TSA screening checkpoint, entering a boarding gate concourse and taking a pair of sunglasses from a variety store before he was arrested.

The 69-year-old, who owns Discoteca y Novedades Tierra Caliente, a variety store in Huntington Park, has managed to not get infected this whole time.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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