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noun

a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.

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Origin of package store

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby package store

pack, packable, package, package deal, packager, package store, package tour, packaging, pack animal, pack a punch, packboard

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How to use package store in a sentence

Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.
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The people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?
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It's nothing for someone to walk up to me in the store or at a restaurant and ask for an autograph or speak to me.
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
In this traffic he made money so fast that he opened an office, and subsequently a store of his own, in the Escolta.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The dry earth, sun-baked to a depth of many feet, was giving off its store of heat accumulated during the day.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
At the store he would never have given in, but he was not accustomed to hearing so loud a murmur of approval greet the opposition.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
This struck Davy as being a very happy idea, and he accordingly printed "Confexionry" on the package in his very best manner.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl

British Dictionary definitions for package store

package store

noun

US a store where alcoholic drinks are sold for consumption elsewhereCanadian name (also sometimes used in the US): liquor store Brit equivalent: off-licence

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