post exchange
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of post exchange
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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They ate at American fast-food restaurants and bought electronics, T-shirts and groceries at a vast post exchange.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2021
“If there’s one small change, even if there’s something new at the PX, people talk about it,” she said, referring to the post exchange.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2021
The U.S. military operated a PX — or Army post exchange, a retail outlet for soldiers — in the Ginza area of Tokyo.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2016
The post exchange was within clear sight of the sawmill, but Hall never made it.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016
Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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