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package store
noun
: a store that sells bottled or canned alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises
Examples of package store in a Sentence
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Known as the land of steady habits, Connecticut has one of the strongest systems in the country for package stores.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
But Cronin, representing the package stores, said that the idea has legal problems.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
With the Type 5 package stores, DABS receives only $4.73 of the markup, and the store pockets the other $9.20.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2023
Read full article Governor Charlie Baker this week recommended his second batch of pardons in two weeks, proposing forgiveness for three people for decades-old convictions including intent to distribute cocaine and stealing alcohol from a package store.
—Sam Doran, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
Also, the auditors said, DABS isn’t collecting earmarks from Type 5 package agencies as promptly as from other package stores.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2023
The space was originally used as a package store in the 1940s and later expanded into a piano lounge.
—Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Southern Living, 18 July 2023
On Sunday, all package stores in South Boston will close at 4:00 p.m.
—Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
Brown Jug: Alaska’s largest package store retailer opened a store in South Anchorage last month, at 1160 Huffman Park Drive.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1918, in the meaning defined above
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“Package store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/package%20store. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
package store
noun
: a store that sells alcoholic beverages only in containers that may not be opened in the store
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