discount store
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈdɪskaʊnt stɔr/
:
tienda de descuentos
- Many families save money by shopping for clothes and household items at discount stores instead of department stores.
Examples
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One faculty member at a college in the northeast noted a conversation she overheard at the local discount store.
Academic text (2010) -
After all, everybody can simply go down to their local discount store and buy something off the rack.
Blog text (22) -
See if you can get some from the discount stores.
Fiction book (1997) -
There are plenty of other discount stores around, too.
Blog text (15) -
I was shocked to see a discount store run out of most shoes.
Blog text (15) -
Participants received a $10 gift certificate to a local discount store for their participation at each data collection interval.
Academic text (2007) -
Most people stop by, hear the price, then head straight to some discount store for a cheap knockoff.
Fiction book (2000) -
The school benefited when a large discount store offered to individually size each student and order the uniforms at a greatly discounted rate.
Academic text (2002) -
Tube socks are generally sold in the men's sock department at discount stores.
Blog text (18) -
Polly's sister Tootie wears designer labels she buys at discount stores.
Synonyms
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3.3
A shop that sells everyday items at lower prices than usual
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3.2
A shop that sells goods at lower prices than regular stores
A shop or company that sells goods at lower prices than usual
How Cheap
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4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a retail store selling goods at reduced prices' is directly and transparently derived from 'discount' (a reduction in price) + 'store' (a shop). This is a regular noun–noun compound with no idiomatic shift and has close equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Discount store comes from the simple idea of a discount meaning 'a lower price' offered by a store that sells many items more cheaply. So today discount store means 'a shop that sells goods at lower prices'.