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SALES OUTLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place of business for retailing goods
Synonyms:
mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sales outlet" is a kind of...):
business establishment; place of business (an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered)
Meronyms (parts of "sales outlet"):
merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sales outlet"):
country store; general store; trading post (a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise)
department store; emporium (a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain)
discount house; discount store; discounter; wholesale house (a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price)
market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)
center; mall; plaza; shopping center; shopping centre; shopping mall (mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace)
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
strip mall (a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot)
