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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large retail store offering a variety of merchandise and services and organized in separate departments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large store or shop in which many different lines of retail business are carried on under one general management, such as the sale of fabrics, clothing, shoes, hats, jewelry, toys, household utensils, groceries, books, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
shop containing many differentdepartments each of which deals in differentgoods orservices .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain
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