Woolworth

[wool-wurth]

noun

1. Frank Winfield 1852–1919, U.S. merchant.

Woolworth

/ ˈwʊlwəθ /

noun

1. Frank Winfield (ˈwɪnˌfiːld). 1852–1919, US merchant; founder of an international chain of department stores selling inexpensive goods

Example Sentences

A logo was also installed for the failed retailer Woolworths and another sign was put up suggesting the local council would provide snorkelling equipment to navigate a flooded underpass.

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The 1964 Civil Rights Act forbade discrimination in public spaces, like Woolworth counters, while connecting this to hiring freedom from discrimination by establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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She named it after her grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth, the founder of the Woolworth shopping chain.

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"Her answer was a single word: Woolworths," he says.

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Many of those shops are former Woolworths or Wilko branches, which it hoovered up after the two brands collapsed.

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