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shopping center


shopping center

noun

: a group of shops or stores in one area

Full Definition of SHOPPING CENTER

:  a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood —called also shopping plaza
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First Known Use of SHOPPING CENTER

1898

Rhymes with SHOPPING CENTER

documenter, epicenter, front and center, hypocenter, metacenter, multicenter, profit center, representer, supplementer, trauma center

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