DEPARTMENT STORE Synonyms

• a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry

• a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk

• 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

• the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

• the customers for a particular product or service

• a marketplace where groceries are sold

• the securities markets in the aggregate

• an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

• engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

• buy household supplies

• deal in a market

• make commercial

• a place of business for retailing goods

• receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices

• an opening that permits escape or release

• activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

• a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

• small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

• a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

• do one's shopping

• do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

• shop around; not necessarily buying

• give away information about somebody

• a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

• a supply of something available for future use

• an electronic memory device

• a depository for goods

• keep or lay aside for future use

• find a place for and put away for storage

• a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

• An extremely large store; a hypermarket.