convenience store

noun

: a small often franchised market that is open long hours

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The song serves as a Christmas tie-in for FamilyMart, with the group’s members also appearing in the convenience store chain’s campaign commercials. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2025 Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Jay Cannon, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025 Security footage at a 7-Eleven showed Inman and a woman walking into the convenience store on July 4, 2021, then arguing, according to a police narrative. Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 23 Dec. 2025 Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington’s restaurants, barbershops, grocers, convenience stores and taco trucks. Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for convenience store

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of convenience store was in 1965

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“Convenience store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convenience%20store. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.

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convenience store

noun
: a small market that is open many hours

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