Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being one of a chain of retail outlets or retailers selling goods in such outlets in volume at low cost in large warehouselike structures usually built outside of downtown areas near major roadways.
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- adjective US Of or relating to a very large
retail establishment built as a massive, free-standing structure
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Examples
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Reliance at one time considered making an investment of its own in French big-box Carrefour.
Winning Indian Retail's Long War Abheek Bhattacharya 2011
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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera says the ordinance, passed last year, had originally contained an exemption for grocery stores and so-called big-box stores with pharmacies under the same roof.
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And the explosion of malls and so-called big-box stores meant that shopping had graduated from being a necessity or occasional pleasure to a central form of entertainment, a destination that kept people out of the house while they 'shopped till they dropped.'
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011
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criticism was aimed at so-called big-box retailers like Wal-Mart Stores, which has a wholesale business in India.
NYT > Home Page By VIKAS BAJAJ 2012
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The show celebrated computer geekdom with a good chunk of the stories taking place in the big-box electronics store.
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The big-box retailer is making a major push to end that inconvenience.
Wal-Mart Bids to Break Into Gotham Charles Fishman 2011
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The light coming inside the hut is from the sign for an enormous big-box store down the road.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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They've already survived the big-box, national-chain onslaught.
Wal-Mart Bids to Break Into Gotham Charles Fishman 2011
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She asks readers to ponder a world without the big-box bookseller.
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The big-box retailer and online bookseller on Monday began issuing to members of the media invitations to a special press conference this Wednesday, May 6th at 10: 30 a.m. that will take place at Pace University in Manhattan.
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