department store

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noun

a large retail store carrying a wide variety of merchandise and organized into various departments for sales and administrative purposes.

Words nearby department store

department of state, department of the interior, department of the treasury, department of transportation, department of veterans affairs, department store, departmental store, departmentalism, departmentalize, departure, depasture

Origin of department store

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Examples from the Web for department store

Did you ever see a school of salesmanship for department-store women employees?
The Women of Tomorrow|William Hard
The overwhelming majority of department-store clerks are girls under twenty-one.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr
Actually being fitted in a department-store to a real imported dress!
Aunt Crete's Emancipation|Grace Livingston Hill
Non-comps are gleefully sloughed in the army, just as they are in a railroad-office or a department-store.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13|Elbert Hubbard

A duplicate of the department-store bargain rug in the other room lay on the floor.
Big Timber|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for department store

department store

noun

a large shop divided into departments selling a great many kinds of goods

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