dollar store

See also: dollar-store

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dollar store (plural dollar stores)

  2. (US and Canada) A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar. (The latter type, whose name has the literal meaning, were formerly common and are now rare.)
    Hypernyms: store, shop < establishment
    Near-synonyms: five-and-dime, five-and-ten, dime store; pound shop (UK), $2 shop (AU, NZ), ten-dollar store (Hong Kong English)
  3. (historical) A government-owned shop in Cuba that sold goods mainly to foreigners and solely in exchange for hard currency.

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