outlet mall

[ out-let mawl ]

noun

1. a retail complex consisting mainly of stores in which manufacturers sell their own products directly to customers, often for a price that is cheaper than the same goods would be in a store not run directly by the manufacturer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of outlet mall¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

One night last week, about 70 people gathered between two walls near an upscale outlet mall.

From Seattle Times

People in the Willamette Valley may know Woodburn primarily for its outlet mall, just north of Amazon’s new facility.

From Seattle Times

Police in Allen, TX were terse in their admission that the killer in the latest mass shooting, at an outlet mall outside of Dallas over the weekend, had white supremacist beliefs.

From Salon

The Chos, a Korean American family, lived in a two-story house in a newer neighborhood in Dallas, 14 miles south of the outlet mall.

From New York Times

Two days after a gunman opened fire at a crowded mall in Allen, killing eight and wounding seven, shoppers at a Grand Prairie outlet mall Monday said they are apprehensive, frustrated, angry and exhausted.

From Seattle Times