shopping mall

noun

1. mall ( def 1 ).
2. a shopping center.

shopping mall

noun

1. a large enclosed shopping centre

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping mall¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

About 5,500 stores remain, many of them in shopping malls and strip centers that are facing their own reckoning as the coronavirus pandemic enters its 11th month.

From Washington Post

These may include additional testing and health measures in communities which are most impacted, further restrictions on businesses like shopping malls, job or income support for low income families and priority vaccinations for essential workers.

From Washington Post

Long gone are the days when people browsed a shopping mall without the intention to buy.

From Search Engine Land

For example, some shopping malls use it to help set their store rents by counting how many people walk by, and using face data to gauge gender, age, and other demographics.

From MIT Technology Review

That last one about comparing a dying romance to a dead shopping mall appears on “Coney Island,” an imbalanced duet with Matt Berninger of adult rock band the National.

From Washington Post

In the shopping mall they follow me—in the Stanford shopping mall.

From The Daily Beast

We agreed on the Sheppard Centre shopping mall in north Toronto because it was convenient.

From The Daily Beast

Christians are being singled out and massacred from Pakistan to Syria to the Nairobi shopping mall.

From The Daily Beast

Married to one of the London suicide bombers, the British convert is a suspect in the Kenya shopping mall attack.

From The Daily Beast

The Nairobi shopping-mall siege holds lessons for America, but who will listen?

From The Daily Beast

Over time, commercial democracy turned college into another shopping mall.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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