: a store having separate sections for a wide variety of goods
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Cafes and coffee shops have long been found nested within other businesses like book shops, department stores or museums.—Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 18 June 2026 Fragrance used to be a splurge purchase reserved for the department store counter.—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026 The department store is rethinking its approach to luxury, as consumers are now pushing back against a decade of increasingly standardized and ubiquitous products.—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 17 June 2026 The current county administration building was constructed in the 1940s as a department store on the corner of South Andrews Avenue and Southwest Second Street.—Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for department store