department store
a large retail store carrying a wide variety of merchandise and organized into various departments for sales and administrative purposes.
Origin of department store
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How to use department store in a sentence
If you know the original retailer — say a department store or specialty shop — make note of that, too.
Replacing pieces of flatware or china can be a challenge. Here’s how to track them down. | Laura Daily | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostIt steadily expanded, and by 1950, the company website boasts, it had grown into the largest department store group in the UK.
Online fashion brands are snatching up retailers hobbled by the pandemic | Marc Bain | January 25, 2021 | QuartzThat so many street-level spaces were once home to large commercial tenants like department stores and packaging facilities, each with a cavernous square footage, only enhances their appeal.
Welcome to the ground floor: street-level offices for a post-pandemic world | Jessica Davies | January 11, 2021 | DigidayCoStar estimated that one-third of the store closings were by department stores, clothing chains, or other mall-oriented companies, which represent only about 8% of total retail revenue.
A record 12,200 U.S. stores closed in 2020 as e-commerce, pandemic changed retail forever | Phil Wahba | January 7, 2021 | FortuneThey lined the shelves of department stores and gas stations, and teachers struggled to manage the sudden influx of twirling plastic devices in classrooms.
Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.
In 1974, 75 members of the group descended on a Copenhagen department store.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe chants continued in front of the high-end department store.
‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief | Jacob Siegel | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA department store piano melody plays in the background while he admires everything he can see.
Kirk Cameron Saves Christmas from Abominable Killjoys (Other Christians) | Brandy Zadrozny | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe loses them briefly in a department store, but finds them a few moments later, and the incident is never mentioned again.
Colm Toibin Describes The Creation Of His Quiet Masterpiece ‘Nora Webster’ | Jennie Yabroff | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEde was the type after which some department store advertising-department diplomat had coined the term "stylish stout."
I don't know anything; I can only presume that he doesn't intend to open a department store in the Everglades.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersShe had not conducted them to a department store, but to the small shop of a decidedly exclusive children's outfitter.
Red Pepper Burns | Grace S. RichmondAnd she gave me a note to a department store which will probably take me on.
Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort MitchellThis Chinaman had established in Singapore the kind of store which we in America think we invented—the department store.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis Train
British Dictionary definitions for department store
a large shop divided into departments selling a great many kinds of goods
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