store English
Noun
( en noun)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
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A supply held in storage.
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- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
(label) A place where items may be purchased.
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*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
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A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
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A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply
* (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also
* (in computing) memory
Derived terms
* company store
* drugstore
* general store
* variety store
* give away the store
* in store
* mind the store
* put store in
* set store by
* storage
* storebought
* storefront
* storehouse
* storekeeper
* storeroom
Related terms
* storage
Verb
( stor)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=( The China Governess)
, chapter=1 citation
, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
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(computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
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(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
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Derived terms
* store away
* store up
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merchandise English
Alternative forms
* merchandize , merchaundise (obsolete),merchaundize (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
(uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
- ''good business depends on having good merchandise
(countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
(uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.
Synonyms
* wares
* product
Verb
( merchandis)
(archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
- (Francis Bacon)
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
- He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
(archaic) To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
- He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
To promote as if for sale.
- The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
Related terms
* mercantile
* merchant
* merchantable
References
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