DEPARTMENT STORE Synonyms: 21 Similar Words

department store

noun

Definition of department store

as in chain store

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Recent Examples of department store After finishing his fourth year at the Academie, de Kooning went to work as a commercial artist for Cohn Donnay and Company, a large department store. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 What makes the store unique, according to Cohen, is its size and department store-like structure. — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026 On the southwestern shore of the Binnenalster is the Jungfernstieg, a grand promenade crowned by the 114-year-old Alsterhaus department store. — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2026 During that process, another call came in that the suspect had moved into the nearby Marshalls department store. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for department store

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In a press release, the San Jose Police Department said its retail theft unit was investigating retail thefts of large amounts of golf balls from multiple retail chain stores between March 25 and May 5.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 May 2026
Appliances Over 10 Years Old Habitat for Humanity ReStore is one of the few secondhand chain stores that accepts large appliances—whether laundry machines or fridges.

— Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 14 May 2026

Definition of chain store

Noun

Opening in 1951, the Broadway Shopping Center, as it was then called, also offered space for several anchor department stores, along with a Woolworth variety store.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
And that didn’t include Barnes & Noble outlets, college bookstores, online-only sellers, rare book dealers, Friends of the Library shops or variety stores that also sell books.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 May 2026

Definition of variety store

Noun

There was a dime store, a haberdashery, and a newspaper; for a while, Sam delivered fresh produce and cured meats by horse and buggy.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
During the 1930s and 1940s, customers could find glassware nearly anywhere, from department stores to dime stores and from catalogs to grocery-store promotions.

— Alexandra Churchill, Martha Stewart, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of dime store

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Chapek recounts an exchange with Iger — who is mentioned 121 times in the book— years before the CEO changeover.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
In his op-ed, Mitsotakis rejected the notion of loaning portions of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, which claims to already own them, in a similar arrangement to the Bayeux Tapestry exchange.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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