"anchor tenant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, John R. White, Kevin D. Gray, Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties, page 59:",
          "text": "As the number of viable anchor tenants continues to contract, the bargaining leverage of these anchor tenants has increased. The difficulty and expense of negotiating arrangements with them has increased correspondingly.",
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          "ref": "2007, Marianne Jennings, Real Estate Law, page 243:",
          "text": "The anchor tenants are responsible for drawing the majority of the customers to the center or mall and will do a significant amount of advertising that also brings in customers.",
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        "A large and popular store in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain, intended to attract a significant cross-section of customers to the mall."
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          "retail",
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          "chain",
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          "word": "anchor store"
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