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Definitions for department store
de·part·men·t store

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. department store, emporiumnoun

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

GCIDE

  1. Department store

    A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments.

Wiktionary

  1. department storenoun

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

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  1. department store

    A department store is a large retail establishment that offers a wide variety of goods and services organized into separate departments. These departments may include clothing, home goods, cosmetics, electronics, and more. Department stores often offer a convenient one-stop shopping experience for consumers.

Wikidata

  1. Department store

    A department store is a retail establishment with a building open to the public which offers a wide range of consumer goods such as clothing, housewares, furniture and appliances. It typically offers a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in different product categories. Department stores usually sell products including clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment and baby and pet needs. Certain department stores are further classified as discount stores. Big-box stores and hypermarkets have become a modern equivalent to historical department stores. Department stores have a supermarket-type central customer checkout area near the front of the store, or alternatively, sales counters within each department. Department stores are usually part of a retail chain of many stores situated around a country or several countries. Some may be independent retailers, existing entirely independent or as licensed dealers.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of department store in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of department store in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of department store in a Sentence

  1. Howard H. Aiken:

    If it should turn out that the basic logics of a machine designed for the numerical solution of differential equations coincide with the logics of a machine intended to make bills for a department store, I would regard this as the most amazing coincidence I have ever encountered.

  2. Kevin Kiley:

    You have people that can go from department store to department store and rob them with impunity, it's one of the things that's making California, particularly San Francisco, simply unlivable and unsafe.

  3. Maxine Waters:

    If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

  4. Sarah Sanders:

    Waters yelled at a cadre of reporters outside the Speaker’s Lobby who were asking her about her comments. She also refused to answer questions about whether her remarks are bad for her party. Waters has faced bipartisan criticism for her weekend comments to a crowd of supporters in Los Angeles. After White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen were pressured to leave restaurants last week amid the backlash over family separations at the border, Waters had urged the crowd to keep up the pressure. If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.

  5. Maxine Waters:

    Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from the Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.


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