brick-and-mortar

adjective

brick-and-mor·​tar ˈbrik-ən(d)-ˈmȯr-tər 

variants or bricks-and-mortar

: relating to or being a traditional business serving customers in a building as contrasted to an online business

a brick-and-mortar store

Examples of brick-and-mortar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

News that Rite Aid is going to once again file for bankruptcy and sell off its assets doesn’t mean shuttered brick-and-mortar stores will re-open under a CVS Health or Walgreens banner. —Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025

Aisha Applewhite, a longtime baker and passionate entrepreneur, is set to open a brick-and-mortar location in Columbia. —Bryna Zumer, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2025

By 2011, with the establishment of an outpost in Australia, the company had a brick-and-mortar presence on five continents. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 May 2025

While the e-commerce has always been the main channel, Malaspina said that sales generated at the brick-and-mortar store had been growing double-digit every year since COVID-19 and exceeded the ones generated online last year. —Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for brick-and-mortar

• colporteur
• exporter
• headquarter
• importer
• reporter
• supporter
• transporter
• mortar
• quarter
• shorter
• sorter