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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At Keighley's shopping centre, inside the vaccination clinic, nurses are passing around biscuits.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Many people are trapped inside an Aeon Mall shopping centre after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kyushu island, the fire service says.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Natacha Díaz, a mother almost voiceless, told the BBC that her two daughters, aged 22 and 23, are trapped in a small shopping centre where they worked as manicurists.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
We hear they are going to turn this old market into a shopping centre now.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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