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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
Examples of shopping center in a Sentence
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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.
—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
The 60,000-square-foot shopping center will include at least 35 restaurants and retail shops, according to the developer Almquist Developers.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
The shopping center celebrated its grand opening for three days, Feb. 28 through March 2.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
shopping center
noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually located in a suburban area and having a large parking lot
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