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
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Flock Safety's license plate readers are attached to poles near neighborhoods, schools and shopping centers, taking photos of every car that passes.
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Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.
—Gisela Salomon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
But that temporary closure stretched into weeks, leaving an empty building on a prime corner in the city’s premier Broadway Plaza shopping center.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
The city approved the construction of a big-box shopping center called The Pavilion on the property in 2008.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.
—Gisela Salomon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
But that temporary closure stretched into weeks, leaving an empty building on a prime corner in the city’s premier Broadway Plaza shopping center.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
The city approved the construction of a big-box shopping center called The Pavilion on the property in 2008.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shopping center
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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