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Definition of Department store

1. Noun. A large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain.

Definition of Department store

1. Noun. A large shop containing many different departments each of which deals in different goods or services. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Store

Literary usage of Department store

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"When a department store advertises bargains, it does not make that ... 1 —she is not the one who makes that department store's advertisement profitable. ..."

2. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"department store occupations. Cleveland foundation, 191G. 127 pages. ... The department store and its opportunities. 1912. 97 pages. ..."

3. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1921)
"CHAPTER XI PRINCIPLES OF department store ACCOUNTING BY PE BACAS Development of the department store A department store is a combination of a number of ..."

4. Principles of Marketing by Fred Emerson Clark (1922)
"Integration.—A final advantage of large scale retailing is the integration of retailing with jobbing and even with manufacturing. When a department store, ..."

5. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1922)
"Witnesses Lease of Department in department store AGREEMENT made between , hereinafter called the Main Store, and , hereinafter called the Department, ..."

6. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"POSSIBLE DANGERS OF DEPARTMENT-STORE BANKING It has been urged by some that department-store financial institutions contain elements of serious weakness and ..."

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