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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
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Six teens were arrested following two robberies Monday in Baltimore County.
Baltimore County Police officers responded to the 400 block of Jefferson Avenue on Monday around 8 p.m. due to an armed robbery reported near a shopping center along the 800 block of Dulaney Valley Road.
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Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies shot and fatally wounded a man who fired at them outside a Rancho Cucamonga shopping center, authorities said.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
Last July, eight people were injured after a car driver rammed into pedestrians near a Tel Aviv shopping center and then got out of the vehicle to stab civilians.
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Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024
He was also convicted of a sentencing enhancement for using a gun in the Aug. 10, 2019 killing of 24-year-old Jose Castaneda Sandoval at the Plaza de San Jose shopping center at Story and King roads.
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Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 19 Aug. 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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