supermarket
Americannoun
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a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
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any business or company offering an unusually wide range of goods or services.
a financial supermarket that sells stocks, bonds, insurance, and real estate.
noun
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Origin of supermarket
Example Sentences
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Whether folding clothes at a mall retailer or working the register at a supermarket, customer-service jobs have also been ripe fodder for movies about mindless work.
Scam text messages often pretend to be from large companies such as utility companies, banks or supermarkets.
From BBC
On the day of the attack, he had picked up some shopping from the supermarket and was walking home.
From BBC
New York has an existing city program to lure supermarkets to underserved areas called FRESH.
From Barron's
When I was a kid, I didn’t know who made the deodorant I smelled in the supermarket aisle.
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