automall

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English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ mall.

Noun

automall (plural automalls)

  1. A collection of car-related businesses like dealerships and garages, a car-oriented shopping center.
    • 1987 December, Greg Evans, “The automalling of kings”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page G-6:
      What exactly is an automall? Pretty much what the name suggests. Kings Automall, upon completion, will feature ten auto dealerships and several auto-related businesses clustered along a cul de sac on seventy-five acres at the Fields-Ertel Road-I-71 intersection.
    • 2004, David A Kay, CliffsAP Statistics, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
      The manager of the automall wants to test the claim that the six dealers are equally popular.
    • 2005 February 16, “Outlaws” (0:35:00 from the start), in Lost, spoken by James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway):
      I take comfort knowing someday this is all gonna be a real nice shopping complex. Maybe even an automall.