DEPARTMENT STORE Synonyms: 21 Similar Words

department store

noun

Definition of department store

as in chain store

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Recent Examples of department store Its original owner and namesake was a salesman at Marshall Field & Company, a department store in downtown Chicago. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2026 The first parade was in 1924, but it was canceled during World War II, so this is the department store’s 100th march along the streets of Manhattan. — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 The toy store has 40 locations inside Macy’s department store, and are adding 120 stand-alone locations as part of a major retail expansion in a press release Thursday, as part of a partnership with Go! — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026 The department store on Fifth Avenue wedged between 57th and 58th Streets, Bergdorf Goodman, is one of them. — Air Mail, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for department store

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In a press release, the San Jose Police Department said its retail theft unit was investigating retail thefts of large amounts of golf balls from multiple retail chain stores between March 25 and May 5.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 May 2026
Appliances Over 10 Years Old Habitat for Humanity ReStore is one of the few secondhand chain stores that accepts large appliances—whether laundry machines or fridges.

— Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 14 May 2026

Definition of chain store

Noun

Opening in 1951, the Broadway Shopping Center, as it was then called, also offered space for several anchor department stores, along with a Woolworth variety store.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
And that didn’t include Barnes & Noble outlets, college bookstores, online-only sellers, rare book dealers, Friends of the Library shops or variety stores that also sell books.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 May 2026

Definition of variety store

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There was a dime store, a haberdashery, and a newspaper; for a while, Sam delivered fresh produce and cured meats by horse and buggy.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
During the 1930s and 1940s, customers could find glassware nearly anywhere, from department stores to dime stores and from catalogs to grocery-store promotions.

— Alexandra Churchill, Martha Stewart, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of dime store

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Nasdaq Stockholm attracted more IPO capital last year than any other European exchange.

— Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Looking further ahead, Yi wants to build a cross-border talent development program, whether an exchange, a shadowing scheme or an accelerator.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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