departmental store

noun

British.

1. a department store.

Example Sentences

"Often they'll say, 'Well I'm not opening a four story departmental store because it's not going to be viable'. Well, I accept that because lots of people are shopping online, but can you have one story then?"

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"There's definitely been an increase in interest," says Elsie Lin of Elsie Departmental Store in Singapore.

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The Chirathivat retailing clan, last year’s No. 1, dropped to No. 3 this year, partly due to a fall in shares of their departmental store developer, Central Pattana.

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I am all in favour of the departmental store.

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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.

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