shopping center

noun

: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood

called also shopping plaza

Examples of shopping center in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lines formed outside the door at Huong Que, which persuaded Eden Center management in 1997 to offer the Lai family a more spacious, more coveted location facing the sprawling parking lot at the shopping center. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024 The 3,400-square-foot, full-service restaurant is situated across from the Grove at the Birkdale Village shopping center. Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2024 The Palisades is like Pleasantville—all the new houses belong on Cape Cod, and there’s a shopping center that takes holidays a little too seriously. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024 Another last-minute option is the various street vendors set up along busy intersections and shopping center parking lots around the Valley. The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2024 Someone stepped in and shot Barbosa in the collarbone in the November 2019 incident outside the Port Orchard meth house, which was near a shopping center. Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024 The San Jose native runs SDS NexGen Partners, which has invested in several properties around downtown Willow Glen, such as the Garden Theater, and the Sun Garden shopping center. Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024 Numerous callers to 911, according to radio traffic, reported hearing at least five to seven bullets ring out across the shopping center, which features several retailers including Nugget Market, followed by people screaming in the parking lot. Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024 Fireside Pies, 628 Harrold St., has closed after less than a year in the Left Bank shopping center. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shopping center was in 1898

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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

shopping center

noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually located in a suburban area and having a large parking lot
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