"dollar store" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dollar store.wav Forms: dollar stores [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dollar store (plural dollar stores)
  1. (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.) Tags: Canada, US Synonyms: five-and-dime, five-and-ten, dime store, ;, pound shop, $2 shop, ten-dollar store Hypernyms: store, shop, establishment Derived forms: dollar-store [attributive] Translations (retail store selling inexpensive items): magasin à une piasse [Quebec, masculine] (French), magasin à prix unique (French), 100 forintos bolt (Hungarian), 100円ショップ (hyaku-en shoppu) (alt: ひゃくえんショップ) (Japanese), bir milyoncu (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-dollar_store-en-noun-en:store_selling_inexpensive_items Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Shops Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Shops: 71 29 Disambiguation of 'retail store selling inexpensive items': 90 10
  2. (historical) A government-owned shop in Cuba that sold goods mainly to foreigners and solely in exchange for hard currency. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-dollar_store-en-noun-szb-Xw0~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Cuba Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 63 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Cuba: 3 97

Inflected forms

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