stores

/ stɔːz /

plural noun

1. a supply or stock of something, esp essentials, for a specific purpose

   the ship's stores

2. munitions slung externally on a military aircraft airframe

Example Sentences

Each box they filled contained different sizes of watermelons, but the one stores wanted most was a six.

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The American coffee company has lost market share in China to cheaper, local rivals such as Luckin Coffee, which dethroned Starbucks as the country’s biggest coffee chain by sales and stores in 2023.

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The researchers found a connection between store exposure and higher rates of harm, with the largest increases appearing in neighborhoods that had many stores located close together.

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Annual profit has grown sevenfold since Wilson was last on the board in 2015, and there are now more than twice as many stores.

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"I visited a Christmas market in Milan a few years ago, and it wasn't the same, it was just a collection of different stores," he adds.

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Related Words

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• responsibility 
• subsidy