departmental store

noun

, British.

1. a department store.

Example Sentences

"Often they'll say, 'Well I'm not opening a four story departmental store because it's not going to be viable'. Well, I accept that because lots of people are shopping online, but can you have one story then?"

From BBC

"There's definitely been an increase in interest," says Elsie Lin of Elsie Departmental Store in Singapore.

From BBC

The Chirathivat retailing clan, last year’s No. 1, dropped to No. 3 this year, partly due to a fall in shares of their departmental store developer, Central Pattana.

From Forbes

I am all in favour of the departmental store.

From Time Magazine Archive

The free-lance ground stunt, then, had its origin in the initiative of a few pilots who recognised a chance, took it, and thus opened yet another branch in the huge departmental store of aerial tactics.

From Project Gutenberg