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shopping center
noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood
called also shopping plaza
Examples of shopping center in a Sentence
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Malls and luxury shopping centers can subsequently establish creative leasing and merchandizing solutions to help their luxury tenants reach this formable demographic.
—Naveen Jaggi, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Stifel downgraded the real estate investment trust that invests in malls and shopping centers to hold from buy.
—Lisa Kailai Han,fred Imbert, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
Stop by: East Charlotte in the East Town Market shopping center – 5708 N. Sharon Amity Road.
—Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
One of these cold bodies was behind the shopping center bombing that opened the season — not an ideologically motivated act of terrorism, but a deadly form of acting out by a son against his father.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
shopping center
noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually located in a suburban area and having a large parking lot
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