noun
a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot
• Hypernyms: ↑mercantile establishment, ↑retail store, ↑sales outlet, ↑outlet
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noun : a long building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments
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a retail complex consisting of stores or restaurants in adjacent spaces in one long building, typically having a narrow parking area directly in front of the stores.
[1990-95]
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strip mall noun (US)
A shopping mall in which the shops are arranged in a row along a roadside
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Main Entry: ↑strip
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a row of shops contained in one long building with its own car park
Thesaurus: groups of shopshyponym
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strip mall «strihp mawl, mal, or ml»,
a shopping center located along a highway crowded with commercial development: »
The last downtown supermarket moved from Main Street to a new strip mall.
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n. a shopping mall consisting of stores and restaurants typically in one-story buildings located on a busy main road
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noun, pl ⋯ malls [count]
US : a long building that is divided into separate shops which usually have outside entrances and which share a parking lot
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a line of shops/stores and restaurants beside a main road
Useful english dictionary. 2012.