Lexic.us

Definition of Shopping center

1. Noun. Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace. "They spent their weekends at the local malls"

Definition of Shopping center

1. Noun. A shopping centre, shopping mall ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shopping Center

Literary usage of Shopping center

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

1. Adventure Guide to Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"It's easy to miss this café hidden in a shopping center. ... The small shopping center called Pukalani Square is where you will find Sunny Maui Specialties, ..."

2. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"Today, 105 stores and eight restaurants do business in the two-story shopping center. Inside the mall's center court, antique vendors and mountain crafters ..."

3. In Sunny France: Present-day Life in the French Republic by Henry Tuckley (1894)
"THAT the city which is the shopping-center of Europe, and which annually attracts to itself so many thousands of purchasers from America, should have in it ..."

4. Annual Institute on Municipal Finance Law: Course Handbook by Practising Law Institute (1900)
"Best Buy which leases the shopping center files a Chapter 11 Proceeding and informs the City that the Debtor no longer can make the payments on the IRB ..."

5. Scenario for a Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake on the Hayward Fault edited by Francis M. Christie (1997)
"The Hilltop Mall shopping center is located about a mile and a half from the ... This is a shopping center very similar in construction to the Northridge ..."

6. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Ghent Urban Studies Team (2002)
"When developers and storeowners set out to make the shopping center a more perfect downtown, they explicitly excluded from this community space unwanted ..."

7. Daytrips Hawaii: 50 One Day Adventures on Six Islands by Car, Bus, Bicycle by David Cheever (2001)
"ALA MOANA shopping center (1), 1459 Ala Moana Blvd., * 946-2811. The center's own shuttle ... Without doubt, this is Hawaii's best-known shopping center. ..."

8. Have the U. S. Supreme Court's 5th Amendment Takings Decisions Changed Land by Daniel Pollak (2001)
"One is that the shopping center would contribute to the traffic that would be ... According to a 1991 study paid for by the developer, a shopping center at ..."

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