emporium
a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles.
a place, town, or city of important commerce, especially a principal center of trade: New York is one of the world's great emporiums.
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How to use emporium in a sentence
Maybe he has a real chance to break ground on his very own cannabis delivery app or a brick-and-mortar emporium, and to reach a much higher economic ceiling in the process.
A weed dealer in NYC on how legalization could affect his business | Luke Winkie | June 4, 2021 | Vox“The department store as an all-encompassing emporium is a product of the 20th century and a victim of the 21st,” said Cohen of Columbia Business School.
Mall department stores were struggling. The pandemic has pushed them to the edge of extinction. | Abha Bhattarai | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostThose who endure will understand that the key to success, as it was for the great emporiums of old, is building lasting relationships, customer by customer.
In New York City, the high-end adventure outfitter Abercrombie and Fitch and the kitchen emporiums of big department stores did a bustling business in these new symbols of postwar meat consumption.
To Find Hope in American Cooking, James Beard Looked to the West Coast | John Birdsall | October 2, 2020 | EaterHe turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy.
Charles D’Ambrosio’s X-Ray Vision Is On Full Display In His New Essay Collection. | Steve Almond | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And then came the day when they walked into the London workshop of a musical instrument emporium.
Exile on Sesame Street: Keith Richards Writes a Kids’ Book | Malcolm Jones | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe around-the-corner emporium Pies supplies a variety of irresistible desserts.
Dallas’s Bishop Arts District Brings European Flavor To The Texas Heartland | Pete Freedman | July 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe firehouse is near the Food emporium market where Tommy worked as the meat manager before he was called to the FDNY.
Firefighter’s Son in Iconic 1995 Funeral Photo Follows His Dad’s Deadly Steps | Michael Daly | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt seems like Mr. Magorium's Wonder emporium is a film which will live in infamy for quite some time.
‘Breaking Bad’ Meets ‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium’… And It Is Glorious | Amy Zimmerman | September 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMr. McSweeney had the bad taste to try to stick up our local drug emporium about half an hour ago.
Shanghai is rapidly becoming the great commercial emporium of China.
Before the bewildered orphan knew where he was, he found himself in the interior of Ibrahim's emporium.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngIt was a most primitive emporium of a most primitive frontier.
Left on the Labrador | Dillon WallaceSolano, by the way, is the commercial emporium of this end of the province, for there is not a single shop in Bayombong.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga | Cornelis De Witt Willcox
British Dictionary definitions for emporium
/ (ɛmˈpɔːrɪəm) /
a large and often ostentatious retail shop offering for sale a wide variety of merchandise
Origin of emporium
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