department store

Noun

Meaning

a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain

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Examples

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. Steven Wright

Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high. Gudrun Ensslin

California, the department store state. Raymond Chandler

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor. Lauren Hutton

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money. Christie Hefner

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