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departmental store
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large store organized into departments, each one of which sells a particular type of merchandise.
See: department store
Quotations
1897
The big departmental stores . . . are absorbing the trade of both city and country merchants, and concentrating in one spot the business which a few years ago was distributed over a large area and among a great number of people.
1922
The purchase by the Hudson's Bay Company of the Saskatoon departmental store . . . was announced on March 28th.