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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Then in Brookhaven, a homeless man was ambushed and shot several times while sleeping outside a shopping center on Peachtree Road.
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Landon Mion , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Dallas' Wynnewood Village, one of the oldest retail shopping centers in the city, originally built in 1949, is now home to very familiar shopping brands.
—Steve Pickett, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Opened in 1974 on the former site of a large goldfish farm, the Westminster Mall grew to become the second most popular shopping center in Orange County before it, too, started to show the effects of shifts in American shopping habits.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
The owner of the shopping center where the theater once operated is proposing that demolition as part of a larger redevelopment and beautification effort.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
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Landon Mion , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Dallas' Wynnewood Village, one of the oldest retail shopping centers in the city, originally built in 1949, is now home to very familiar shopping brands.
—Steve Pickett, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Opened in 1974 on the former site of a large goldfish farm, the Westminster Mall grew to become the second most popular shopping center in Orange County before it, too, started to show the effects of shifts in American shopping habits.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
The owner of the shopping center where the theater once operated is proposing that demolition as part of a larger redevelopment and beautification effort.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
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 16 Apr. 2026.
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