hypermarket
hypermarket
Definition
hyper·market (hī′pər mär′kit)
noun
a very large retail store offering the products of a supermarket and the merchandise of a department store
hypermarket
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: The plan is to demolish the shops and build a new hypermarket in their place.
- visit: So there will be time to visit a hypermarket before the train leaves.
- have: Both of these towns have large hypermarkets that are easily accessible.
- invent: France invented the hypermarket but went through a similar change of heart even earlier, as did The Netherlands.
Preposition: on
- outskirt: There are several good hypermarkets on the outskirts of the town which might be useful if you are heading toward home.
Adjective modifier
- out-of-town: There is also a danger of schools becoming like those big out-of-town hypermarkets which suck the life away from other shops " .
- French: Over the next 20 years French hypermarkets captured almost half the retail market, forcing many thousand independent service stations into bankruptcy.
- large: Many shops, with the exception of the larger hypermarkets, have a midday break for two hours.
- local: The other was from a local hypermarket, seven months old.
- new: The plan is to demolish the shops and build a new hypermarket in their place.
- big: There are several big hypermarkets in Calais which are geared up to sell what UK buyers are looking for.
Modifies a noun
- chain: Wal-Mart eyes China expansion 17/10/2006 Wal-Mart could be planning to acquire the Chinese hypermarket chain Trust-Mart for $ 1bn ( £ 800m ).
- forecourt: In the late 1980's and early 1990's, savings of between 2p and 4p per liter could frequently be enjoyed at a hypermarket forecourt.
- operator: The hypermarket operators initially adopted a policy of significant price discounting as against the prices charged by the majority of oil companies.
- competition: In response to hypermarket competition the first of the major oil companies to announce its pricing policy on a national basis was BP.
- station: The previously low-cost hypermarket stations began to add more facilities, looking more like their major oil company competitors.
- shopping: Hypermarket shopping is an experience not to be missed, with everything possible to buy being sold beneath one roof.
Noun used with modifier
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