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Shopping Center

Definition: Shopping Center

Shopping Center

Noun

1. Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Shopping Center

Synonyms: center (n), mall (n), plaza (n), shopping mall (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Shopping Center

Specialty definitions using "shopping center": buying behaviorSTREET-SWEEPER OPERATORtractor-sweeper driverwalk-in questionnaire assistance center. (references)

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Modern Usage: Shopping Center

DomainUsage

Lyrics

I pulled into the shopping center (Grown Men Don't Cry; performing artist: Tim McGraw)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Shopping Center

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers: 2002: A Study of Receipts and Expenses in Shopping Center Operations (Dollars and Cents of Shopping Centers, 20 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Store And Shopping Center Openings (reference)

  • Tactics Magazine For Shopping Center Marketing Directories (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Shopping Center

Photos:
Shopping Center

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Computer Images:
Shopping Center

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Photo Album: Shopping Center

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Levittown Center shopping center, Levittown, Long Island, N.Y.] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Roger Higgins..

Shopping center and motion picture theater integrated with the architecture of the federal housing project at Greenbelt, Md. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hood River, Oregon, shipping and shopping center for Hood River Valley, where apples and pears are main crops. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shopping center of Eldorado, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Munsey Park. Shopping center I. Credit: Library of Congress.

County Hardware, business in Town and Country Shopping Center, Stamford, Connecticut. General view. Credit: Library of Congress.

Smithtown Shopping Center. General view. Credit: Library of Congress.

Filene's, business in North Shore Shopping Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Boys' department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cortez Plaza Shopping Center, Bradenton, Florida. Bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Schreier & Patterson, architects. Four Corners shopping center I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Shopping Center

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Estimated annual sales for an apparel franchise located in a shopping center is $1.5 million. (references)

There are big footwear departments in every supermarket, department store and shopping center. (references)

Malls, which were once only found in America, are being constructed in the UK. Bluewater, Europe's largest shopping center, opened in March 1999 just east of London. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

On February 25, police dispersed a meeting of several dozen MDC supporters at a Chitungwiza shopping center. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Shopping center developments are mushrooming. (references)

Burma

Additional serviced apartments such as Golden Hill Towers, and the Yankin Shopping Center have improved the availability of international standard housing and shopping space in Rangoon. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

The Government took no clear steps to stop these militias' actions, although tighter restrictions on these groups' right to bear arms were implemented following a May 1999 shootout between PLOTE and Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) supporters near a popular shopping center in downtown Colombo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Shopping Center

Expression using "shopping center": shopping center in paris. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shopping Center

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shopping center

897

shopping center world

13

stanford shopping center

164

northgate shopping center

9

international council of shopping center

72

northland shopping center

8

century city shopping center

50

chula vista shopping center

8

hillsdale shopping center

38

new york shopping center

6

lakeside shopping center

36

westland shopping center

6

woodfield shopping center

36

fashion island shopping center

6

blue water shopping center

34

eastridge shopping center

5

rosedale shopping center

24

brookdale shopping center

5

tysons corner shopping center

22

northridge shopping center

5

cherry creek shopping center

21

dallas shopping center

4

cross county shopping center

18

ford city shopping center

4

yorktown shopping center

17

kansas city shopping center

4

westlake shopping center

16

metcalf south shopping center

3

crossroads shopping center

16

huebner oak shopping center

3

westgate shopping center

14

woodbury commons shopping center

2

fashion valley shopping center

13

michigan shopping center

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Shopping Center

Language Translations for "shopping center"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

購物中心 . (various references)

   

French

  

halles (shopping center in paris). (various references)

   

German

  

Einkaufszentrum (Mall, Plaza, shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ωχρότητα (blindly, luridness, paleness, sallowness, wanness), εμπορικό κέντρο (emporiums, forum, mall, shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

   

Italian

  

centro commerciale (shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

地下街 (underground shopping center). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちかがい (underground shopping center). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oppingshay entercay

   

Portuguese

  

centro comercial (mart, retail center, retail centre, shopping centre). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

торговый центр (emporium, mart, shopping mall, shopping precinct). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

centro comercial (Mall, shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alışveriş merkezi (Mall, shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Shopping Center

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-o-p-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: copresenting.

-3 letters: nonreceipts, perceptions, prospecting.

-4 letters: choppering, constringe, ensphering, epistrophe, estrogenic, incoherent, intrenches, nephrotics, nightscope, nonreceipt, pepsinogen, perception, precenting, prehension, preopening, presenting, pretension, prophecies, prosecting, receptions, reopenings, respecting, rhinestone, sceptering, shortening, spirochete, stoppering, threonines.

-5 letters: censoring, centering, centrings, choppiest, coinheres, congeners, congeries, consenter, consignee, coppering, copresent, corseting, coshering, creeshing, cretonnes, enciphers, enthrones, entropies, erections.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Shopping Center


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 6F 70 70 69 6E 67      43 65 6E 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01101111 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#111 &#112 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#67 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 006F 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067      0043 0065 006E 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53748182827580732377180867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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