Definition of department store
: a store having separate sections for a wide variety of goods
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Thomas O’Neill, who made a fortune at his Charles Street department store — then left it to pay for building the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen and Good Samaritan Hospital — is among the eternally sleeping.
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The ones who looked at me with direct, unmitigated wanting under the white light of department stores just this week.
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In addition to the shelter lot, homeless families stay in the lot at the nearby Crisis Assistance Ministry, as well as the lots of 24-hour department stores.
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No historic elements remain inside the old department store, completed in 1939, but great pains are being taken to restore the exterior and the iconic gold mosaic.
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Hackers breached the payment systems of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor department stores and stole credit card information for millions of shoppers, the latest in a series of intrusions that have exposed security gaps in corporate networks.
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The owner of Lord & Taylor and Saks said Sunday that a data breach at its department stores compromised customer payment data.
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Traditionally, mattresses have been sold by mom-and-pop stores, retail chains like Mattress Firm, and department stores.
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Some pieces could be considered vintage - retrieved from dumpsters of large department stores that went out of business.
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First Known Use of department store
1887
DEPARTMENT STORE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of department store for English Language Learners
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: a large store that has separate areas in which different kinds of products are sold
DEPARTMENT STORE Defined for Kids
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Definition of department store for Students
: a store having individual departments for different kinds of goods
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