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When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.
Tom Hanks

Meaning of "shopping centre" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOPPING CENTRE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOPPING CENTRE

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Shopping centre is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHOPPING CENTRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shopping centre

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping center/centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct, or simply just a mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to walk from unit to unit. Other establishments including movie theaters and restaurants are also often included. As traders moved into more spacious shops in the early 19th century high streets developed, but wealthier people started wanting shelter from rain, so shopping arcades were developed. With new innovations like escalators these evolved into shopping centres and with the rise of the automobile these evolved into shopping malls. From early on, the design tended to be inward-facing, with malls following theories of how customers could best be enticed in a controlled environment. Similar, the concept of a mall having one or more "anchor stores" or "big box stores" was pioneered early, with individual stores or smaller-scale chain stores intended to benefit from the shoppers attracted by the big stores.

Definition of shopping centre in the English dictionary

The definition of shopping centre in the dictionary is a purpose-built complex of shops, restaurants, etc, for the use of pedestrians. Other definition of shopping centre is the area of a town where most of the shops are situated.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOPPING CENTRE

shopped
shopper
shopping
shopping arcade
shopping bag
shopping bag lady
shopping basket
shopping cart
shopping channel
shopping complex
shopping facilities
shopping hours
shopping list
shopping mall
shopping plaza
shopping precinct
shopping spree
shopping trip
shopping trolley
shopping village

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOPPING CENTRE

business centre
call centre
centre
city centre
community centre
concentre
conference centre
convention centre
drop-in centre
fitness centre
garden centre
health centre
information centre
leisure centre
rencontre
resource centre
right-of-centre
service centre
the Centre
town centre
training centre

Synonyms and antonyms of shopping centre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHOPPING CENTRE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shopping centre» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shopping centre

Translation of «shopping centre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOPPING CENTRE

Find out the translation of shopping centre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shopping centre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shopping centre» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

购物中心
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

centro comercial
570 millions of speakers

English

shopping centre
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शॉपिंग सेंटर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَرْكَزُ التَّسَوُّق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

торговый центр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shopping center
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিপনি বিতান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

centre commercial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pusat membeli-belah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Einkaufszentrum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ショッピングセンター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쇼핑센터
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shopping center
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trung tâm thương mại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பல்கடை அங்காடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खरेदी केंद्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alışveriş Merkezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

centro commerciale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

centrum handlowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

торгівельний центр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

centru comercial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπορικό κέντρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

winkelsentrum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

köpcentrum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kjøpesenter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shopping centre

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOPPING CENTRE»

The term «shopping centre» is very widely used and occupies the 17.147 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOPPING CENTRE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shopping centre

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2 QUOTES WITH «SHOPPING CENTRE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shopping centre.
1
Tom Hanks
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.
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Randy Quaid
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOPPING CENTRE»

Discover the use of shopping centre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shopping centre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shopping Centre Development (RLE Retailing and Distribution)
This book examines the shopping centre development process and analyses the control policies which have been taken and which are needed. It draws on material from throughout the developed world. First published 1985.
John A. Dawson, Dennis Lord, 2012
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Four Rs of Asian shopping centre management
The book is divided into four sections discussing the four Rs: Getting it Right, Doing it Right, Opening it Right and Keeping it Right.
Keng Neo Lynda Wee, Kok Wing Tong, 2005
3
Objects of Desire: Consumer Behaviour in Shopping Centre Choices
Developers wish to plan, build and/or improve shopping centers to maximize profitable retail sales and shopper satisfaction. This book explores a range of perspectives from the traditional to the latest thinking.
Charles Dennis, Andrew Andrew Julian Newman, David Marsland, 2005
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Retail Marketing
The planned shopping centre is one of the most widely studied retailing phenomena, yet comparatively little empirical research has addressed the issue of tenant placement, the relative location of retail outlets within centres. 1n an attempt to ...
Gary Akehurst, Nicholas Alexander, 1995
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Retail Change: Contemporary Issues
As yet, relatively little comparative work has been undertaken at the pan- European scale to describe and explain the geography of the shopping centre phenomenon (Merenne-Schoumaker 1983, 1991). This issue forms the focus of this ...
Rosemary D. F. Bromley, Colin J. Thomas, 1993
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The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-country Firms: ...
The shopping mall has been championed as 'an American cultural phenomenon', symbolic of US consumers' relentless pursuit of happiness (Farrell, 2003: xi). Yet the firm anointed in 2002 by The Economist as the shopping centre industry's ...
Howard Dick, David Merrett, 2007
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Dynamic Trip Modelling: From Shopping Centres to the Internet
Thomas and Bromley (1993) describe a substantial decline at Gateshead, UK, from the operation of the nearby planned regional Metrocentre planned shopping centre. At Gateshead, pedestrian flows declined by 34% following the opening of  ...
Robert G. V. Baker, 2006
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Geography and Retailing
SHOPPING-CENTRE DELIMITATION AND CLASSIFICATION If shops had similar market requirements irrespective of their trading characteristics and organisation the external economies which they derive from agglomeration would result, ...
Peter Scott, 1967
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Pacific Fair Shopping Centre
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Fair is a major shopping centre located in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, and was Queensland's largest regional shopping centre until 2006.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
10
Shopping, Place and Identity
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Peter Jackson, Michael Rowlands, Daniel Miller, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOPPING CENTRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shopping centre is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mother dies in escalator accident at shopping centre
The Wuhan Evening News said an investigation into what caused Sunday's fatal accident has begun with the shopping centre still to comment on the tragedy ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
2
Thief robs epileptic woman in Midlands shopping centre
A West Midlands police picture of a woman they want to trace in connection with the robbery in a shopping centre in Stourbridge. Photograph: West Midlands ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
3
Russian fatal Kazan shopping centre fire leaves 25 missing
Five people have died and up to 25 people are feared trapped in rubble after a fire at a shopping centre in the Russian city of Kazan. The fire started in a ... «BBC News, Mar 15»
4
US security chief warns shoppers after terror threat
US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has urged people to be vigilant following a terror threat to Western shopping centres, including one of America's ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
5
Extremists call for attacks on Oxford Street and Westfield shopping
The footage, from al-Shabaab, also calls on extremists to target 'Jewish-owned' shopping centres in the U.S., Canada, and France. One of the people in the ... «Metro, Feb 15»
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A blackened wall after the shopping mall explosion: Picture: Oliver …
Shopping centre worker Jody Turner said she felt the vibration of the explosion from her nearby home. She rushed to her workplace, Barbecues Galore, and said ... «NEWS.com.au, Feb 15»
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Wedding ceremony - in a bustling shopping centre
A couple from Shropshire got married in front of hundreds of shoppers as their wedding ceremony was held in a shopping centre today. Mike and Kate Davies ... «ITV News, Jan 15»
8
Bomb found outside Istanbul shopping centre
Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish police on Saturday defused a bomb outside a shopping centre in Istanbul, with the city on a high security alert following a suicide ... «Yahoo News, Jan 15»
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Shopping centre fire kills 13 in Pakistan
At least 13 people were killed after a fire broke out at a shopping centre in Pakistan. ... A day earlier, a huge fire devastated a shopping mall in Karachi. «euronews, Dec 14»
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Hawaii lava flow stops short of shopping centre
Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano inches closer to the tiny town of Pahoa on December 18, 2014.In a series of photos, the smoldering mass of the Puna Lava ... «Globalnews.ca, Dec 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Shopping centre [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/shopping-centre>. May 2024 ».
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