shopping mall
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- noun
- /ˈʃɑːpɪŋ mɔːl/
- Texting
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centro comercial virtual
- The website serves as a virtual shopping mall, bringing together multiple brands for easy online shopping.
- an online shopping mall
- a virtual shopping mall
Examples
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This online shopping mall allows customers to purchase products from various retailers in one convenient place.
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The way Parker Hannifin Corp. CIO Paul Carson sees it, business-to-business marketplaces must become more like shopping malls, where users choose the stores.
Fiction book (2000) -
A whole city block was in ruins, just like one big shopping mall.
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Earn rewards while you shop at this Canadian online shopping mall featuring major retailers of clothing, electronics, and books.
Blog text (16) -
Of course, beyond all this fear and loathing, many more people around the world use the Internet as a global shopping mall and a source of entertainment.
Academic text (2010) -
Imagine a slightly altered version of Stephenson's "Metaverse" as a virtual shopping mall.
Academic text (1997) -
In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 2,400 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice.
Blog text (7) -
Strange as it may sound, they don't necessarily need massive traffic, only consistent traffic; so long as they remain the web's equivalent of the yellow pages and the shopping mall, respectively, they will do fine.
Blog text (23) -
Shoppers can find everything they need at this popular shopping mall, from clothing to electronics.
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'shopping' (buying goods) + 'mall' (a complex with many shops), so a learner who knows both words can predict it denotes a place or platform for shopping across multiple stores. This compositional pattern is common cross‑linguistically and follows regular noun+noun compound logic, making it readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Shopping mall is also used for online sites that bring many shops together in one place. People used the picture of a real mall with many stores 'under one roof' to name these websites, so the term now means an online market where you can browse and buy from many sellers.