Definition of "shopping center" [shopping center]

• A group of stores and often restaurants and other businesses having a common parking lot. (noun)

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• "Thor Equities Thor Equities' rendering of a proposed $150 million shopping center near Gravesend Bay."
• "Joseph Sitt, a Brooklyn-born developer who has been doing deals from Coney Island to London, is seeking city approvals to build a 200,000-square-foot shopping center and 2.4-acre public waterfront esplanade near Gravesend Bay."
• "“But I just assumed Sugar Plum Farm was a cute name for, like, a shopping center or mall or something.”"