<span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">general</span> stores) A <span class="searchmatch">store</span> which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise...
<span class="searchmatch">general</span> stores plural of <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span>...
country <span class="searchmatch">store</span> (plural country stores) (US, historical) A <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> in a rural setting, often associated with the time of cowboys country merchant counterstory...
From Portuguese botica (“<span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span>”). butika <span class="searchmatch">store</span>...
store <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> give away the <span class="searchmatch">store</span> give the <span class="searchmatch">store</span> away grocery <span class="searchmatch">store</span> hardware <span class="searchmatch">store</span> industrial <span class="searchmatch">store</span> in <span class="searchmatch">store</span> lay <span class="searchmatch">store</span> by liquor <span class="searchmatch">store</span> load-<span class="searchmatch">store</span> architecture...
naalyéhé (“goods”) + bá (“for it”) + hooghan (“house”) naalyéhé bá hooghan department <span class="searchmatch">store</span>, trading post, <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> supermarket, <span class="searchmatch">store</span> warehouse...
<span class="searchmatch">general</span> retainer <span class="searchmatch">general</span> secretary <span class="searchmatch">general</span> semantics generalship <span class="searchmatch">general</span> staff <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> <span class="searchmatch">general</span> strike <span class="searchmatch">general</span> studies <span class="searchmatch">general</span> superior <span class="searchmatch">general</span> surgery...
From shop + -ette. From being a small <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span>. shopette (plural shopettes) (US, military) Synonym of convenience <span class="searchmatch">store</span>. commissary PX BX top sheet...
country merchant (plural country merchants) Synonym of country <span class="searchmatch">store</span> (“<span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> in a rural setting”). 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”...
Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, page 228: All departments on the Isthmus procure their supplies from either the <span class="searchmatch">general</span> <span class="searchmatch">store</span> or the substores....