shopping center
noun
: 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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Duties include patrolling residential neighborhoods, shopping centers and schools and doing traffic control, home vacation and elderly welfare checks, citizen assists and working at public events requiring traffic and pedestrian management.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Welcome to Fatty Ding’s In Monterey Park, the heart of this support system, is the shopping center known as Fatty Ding’s, named for a restaurant that closed long ago and is now a noodle shop.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Welcome to Fatty Ding’s In Monterey Park, the heart of this support system, is the shopping center known as Fatty Ding’s, named for a restaurant that closed long ago and is now a noodle shop.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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