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supermarket

[ soo-per-mahr-kit ]

noun

  1. a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
  2. any business or company offering an unusually wide range of goods or services:

    a financial supermarket that sells stocks, bonds, insurance, and real estate.



supermarket

/ ˈsuːpəˌmɑːkɪt /

noun

  1. a large self-service store retailing food and household supplies
“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 supermarket1

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; super- + market
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Example Sentences

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.

No alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.

Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.

He was captivated by footage of her escape through the hazy entryway of the supermarket, which was obscured by pepper spray.

Soon, you could find products containing palm oil on every supermarket shelf in the country.

A gasoline station and a weed-grown lot would shortly be replaced by a supermarket.

The back door of the supermarket was forced and somebody made off with a variety of groceries.

Apparently he cashed the check at the little store, or the supermarket, near where you lived there in New Orleans.

That put it early in April, which decreased the weather hazard—a major consideration in even a trip to the Supermarket.

Do you know, are you familiar with Hutch's Market, Supermarket?

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