hardware store
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- /ˈhɑrdˌwɛr stɔr/
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ferretería
- On Evelyn's request, I stopped at a hardware store on Amsterdam to purchase something for her insect problem.
- a local hardware store
So not just construction, but let's say hardware stores and roofing companies.
- So not just construction, but let's say hardware stores and roofing companies.
- Or, and hear me out, it's a hardware store.
- There were things called drug stores, stationary stores, grocery stores, hardware stores, and now they're all chains.
- Rob sees me again when I'm at an Ace Hardware store and he says to me, hey Charlie, I want to ask you a question.
Examples
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We're in a hardware store trying to find some paint brushes, shed and fence brush.
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In the morning, thought Christina, I will go to the hardware store and buy a gallon of paint.
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I went to my local hardware store the next day and bought some longer ones.
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You got your key cut at the hardware store.
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I gotta get to the hardware store.
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Help out at my father's hardware store.
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I just picked this up from our local hardware store and it is pelletized.
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You go down to the hardware store and you buy fuses.
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Of course a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store.
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I went to my local hardware store to buy tools for my home renovation.
Synonyms
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A shop or person who sells tools, nails, and other small metal goods
A shop that sells tools, nails and metal items for the home
A shop that sells materials for making and repairing houses and other buildings
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'hardware' (tools, building-related goods) + 'store' (shop), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it is a shop selling hardware. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and requires no idiomatic knowledge beyond the constituent meanings.
Etymology
The compound noun hardware store comes from a simple picture of a shop that sells hardware, meaning metal tools, nails and screws, and the word store for a place that sells things. So, hardware store means 'a shop for tools and building supplies'.