strip mall

noun

: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments

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Since the tornado, the entire block is being restored into a beautiful strip mall that will house the Somewhere in Time Antique Mall, Lasang Pinoy of NWA Filipino Restaurant and other businesses. James F. Hales Remembering Rogers, arkansasonline.com, 31 Oct. 2024 That same hour, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican who could very well be the next Senate Majority Leader, cast his vote in northwest Austin, in a strip mall off MoPac. Asher Price, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024 The event at the strip mall was led by Danielle Friel Otten, a Democratic state representative whose district includes part of Chester County. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024 Within a few months, the closures along the restaurant-heavy strip mall on the east end of Fairfield's Post Road cleared out three units for the owner, a Manhattan finance corporation, to refill, but the entry of two businesses this month has given the lot new signs of life. Jarrod Wardwell, Connecticut Post, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strip mall 

Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of strip mall was in 1977

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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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