big-box

[big-boks]

adjective

1. pertaining to or noting a very large retail store that does a high volume of business and usually has low prices.

   Big-box retailers claim that they create jobs and boost tax revenue.

Other Word Forms

• big box noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of big-box¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Private-label products have proliferated across supermarkets and big-box stores over the decades and now range from Greek yogurt to bacon.

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There is plenty of room to grow its points of distribution at big-box retailers and grocery stores.

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Walmart Inc. was among the top performers on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday and on pace to reach a new record high, after the big-box chain announced a partnership that will soon allow customers to buy items at the retailer through OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.

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At a big-box store in town, Tanya and I found a pair of tents that were each eight by ten feet.

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At least a plurality of the recent high-budget, big-box office movies coming out of Hollywood involve action heroes derived from comic books.

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