multiple shop

American  

noun

British.

1. chain store.

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Etymology

Origin of multiple shop

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

One enterprising firm of multiple shop grocers is said to have already engaged a troupe of performing cheeses to keep the customers amused during the long wait.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various

From a "multiple shop" catalogue:— "SMOKING ROOM.—The decorations are well worth a special note, and are quite unique of their kind, being without a match anywhere."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various

Should he wish for the triumph of labor or capital: the success of the co-operative movement, the triumph of the multiple shop or the private trader, of guilds of workers or autocrats of industry?

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William