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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A retail store that carries a large variety of usually inexpensive merchandise.
- noun A convenience store.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a
five and ten .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
shop where many small andinexpensive items can be bought.
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artoparts commented on the word variety store
See: nickel and dimed & five and ten & five and dime & dimestore.
April 1, 2009