Library / English Dictionary

SUPERMARKET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("supermarket" is a kind of...):

food market; grocery; grocery store; market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supermarket"):

hypermarket (a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town))

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 Context examples: 

To examine the effect that the introduction of checkout food policies in major supermarket chains has had on shoppers’ purchasing habits, the researchers analysed data from the Kantar Worldpanel’s Consumer panel for food, beverages and household products.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Supermarket checkouts provide a unique location for prompting purchases as all customers have to pass through them to pay and may spend considerable time in queues; however, the majority of food at supermarket checkouts could be considered unhealthy.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Our findings suggest that by removing sweets and crisps from the checkout, supermarkets can have a positive influence on the types of purchases their shoppers make, says Dr Katrine Ejlerskov, the study’s first author.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)