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shopping centre

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noun

  1. a purpose-built complex of shops, restaurants, etc, for the use of pedestrians

  2. the area of a town where most of the shops are situated

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With the facility due to close soon, most of the gates of the shopping centre were locked, witnesses said.

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With the facility due to close soon, most of the gates of the shopping centre were locked.

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A fire at a shopping centre in the Pakistan city of Karachi has killed six people as firefighters continue to battle the blaze.

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When Father Christmas visited Derby, he hoped to spread festive joy by meeting children at a shopping centre.

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John Kelly, is understood to have been found injured outdoors on a path in his home town, near St Leonard's Square shopping centre, on Saturday morning.

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