shopping center
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping center
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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They walked behind a shopping center, hopped a fence and continued along a dirt path to a homeless camp.
From Los Angeles Times
He worked at his father’s company, National Realty & Development, developing Walmart-anchored shopping centers along the East Coast.
The building was going to be turned into a shopping center, where people would drive up and down the spiraling road to shops selling clothes, children’s toys and jewelry.
It felt weird competing with him, so I kind of left him the entire east side of the shopping center.
From Literature
The leap in its value was attributed in part to investors’ desire to acquire unglamorous yet financially well-performing shopping centers.
From Los Angeles Times
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