shopping center
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈʃɑːpɪŋ ˈsɛntər/
- US
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centro comercial
- I discovered the new shopping center to be a place of constant activity.
- store in shopping center
- restaurant in shopping center
- mall and shopping center
Then you also have shopping centers, malls that are half empty.
- Then you also have shopping centers, malls that are half empty.
- There are theatres, There are pubs, bars, restaurants, shopping centres.
- And this was in Vodafone in the same shopping centre.
- He started a little grocery store in Cleveland, and it succeeded, and he bought the shopping center.
- You can have warehousing, office buildings, shopping centers, you know, everything.
- Cell phone companies will sell to a shopping centre, a shopping mall in America.
- So do you know the Clark, the Bradley shopping center in Clark, the Clark circle?
- And then the shopping center is built in swamp in Waikiki.
- Walk down the High Street, the shopping centres, they're owned.
- He's with his girl late night one shopping centre called Bromley.
Examples
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Meet me at the shopping center at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon.
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The police found her an hour later near a shopping center about three miles from my house.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is the main shopping centre of the city, the Main Street with all the shops on it.
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So I left the jewelry there and went to a shopping center, just to pass the time.
Fiction book (1996) -
Nobody said anything else until we reached the shopping center where the supermarket stood waiting for us.
Fiction book (1996) -
But she knew the prices and selection were better in this jammed shopping center.
Fiction book (2002) -
Louis had gone to a shopping center to buy a special treatment for his convertible top.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's a one-stop shopping center if you got the balls and the brains.
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Meet me at the shopping center at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon.
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This is the biggest shopping center in Singapore.
Synonyms
545
1.0
A large indoor building with many shops and places to eat
81
3.5
A group of shops and restaurants with parking and outdoor space
62
1.0
A large building or outdoor area with many shops and restaurants
1
5.2
A large covered space with shops and restaurants and often a glass roof
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'shopping' (buying goods) + 'center' (a place/building) straightforwardly denotes a place for shopping. This compound follows a common, cross-linguistic noun+noun pattern (mall/centro commercial/etc.), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Shopping center comes from the simple idea of many shops placed together around a center. The picture is of people going 'to shop' in one building or group of shops, so today it means a single place where you can buy things, eat, and meet people.