departmental store

American  

noun

British.

1. a department store.

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departmental store

I am all in favour of the departmental store.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or it is a boy clerking in a departmental store.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

But it did not get into the paper for the very good reason that "Old John" was the proprietor of the big departmental store which took a full-page advertisement in every issue the year around.

From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse

The free-lance ground stunt, then, had its origin in the initiative of a few pilots who recognised a chance, took it, and thus opened yet another branch in the huge departmental store of aerial tactics.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

When you get there, you will find that Eternal Justice is not built on the departmental store system.

From Wise or Otherwise by Lydia Leavitt