shopping centre
Britishnoun
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a purpose-built complex of shops, restaurants, etc, for the use of pedestrians
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the area of a town where most of the shops are situated
Example Sentences
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Another drone crashed into an apartment building in the Moscow region district of Zhukovsky, while drone debris sparked a fire at a shopping centre near the capital's suburbs, Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyov said.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Videos posted to social media and verified by AFP on Monday showed the catastrophic collapse of a shopping centre in General Santos, and an unoccupied school building crumpling.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Voters in Milton Keynes will be able to cast their ballot in the centre:mk shopping centre.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
He was arrested on Monday alongside his 18-year-old son in a sting operation at a shopping centre in Pretoria.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
‘Actually, I want to go to the shopping centre first, Dad,’ she said.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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