big-box
adjective
: of, relating to, or being a large chain store having a boxlike structure
big box
noun
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But a couple of decades later, the rise of big-box retailers that boasted lower prices, like Walmart and Target, challenged that supremacy.
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Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
Consider skipping the big-box or chain stores and opting for a local or independent designer or artisan for your next home purchase or project.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
In my favorite works of his, like A Case for the Existence of God and A Bright New Boise—a play that has its own surreal dynamic with television screens, which play images of hell in the middle of a big-box store—Hunter locates an unnerving mysticism in between the atoms of the hyper-real.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Its recovery has been splintered, given the varying subsectors of retail, from large indoor malls to big-box centers to grocery-anchored, open-air strip centers.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
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Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
Consider skipping the big-box or chain stores and opting for a local or independent designer or artisan for your next home purchase or project.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
In my favorite works of his, like A Case for the Existence of God and A Bright New Boise—a play that has its own surreal dynamic with television screens, which play images of hell in the middle of a big-box store—Hunter locates an unnerving mysticism in between the atoms of the hyper-real.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Its recovery has been splintered, given the varying subsectors of retail, from large indoor malls to big-box centers to grocery-anchored, open-air strip centers.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for big-box
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“Big-box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-box. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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