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  • in-store
    in-store
    adjective
    available or taking place within a supermarket or other large shop
  • in store
    in store

    In readiness, in preparation for future use, as in I'm keeping several videos in store for your visit . Edmund Spenser used this idiom in The Faerie Queene (1590): “Then for her son . . . In her own hand the crown she kept in store.” [1300s]

Synonyms

in-store

British  

adjective

  1. available or taking place within a supermarket or other large shop

    in-store banking facilities

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

in store Idioms  
  1. In readiness, in preparation for future use, as in I'm keeping several videos in store for your visit . Edmund Spenser used this idiom in The Faerie Queene (1590): “Then for her son . . . In her own hand the crown she kept in store.” [1300s]

  2. in store for . Forthcoming for, awaiting, as in There's trouble in store for you . [Mid-1600s]


Example Sentences

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No big boost looks to be in store after Nvidia’s first-quarter results, which mark the end to the Big Tech earnings season.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Like many others, McIntosh hoped to get his hands on the brightly coloured watch -- sold in store for $400 to $420 to resell it immediately at a huge mark-up.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

A data-light calendar is in store for Japan, narrowing focus on the yen as speculation about intervention continues to swirl and markets look for a potential visit by U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

In a relegation battle like no other, will the Premier League have one final shock in store?

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Memory swept over him, and with it a chilling knowledge of the thing in store for him today.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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