chain store

1. 1.

   one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise

   Broadershop

   Part ofchain

Questions about chain store

What does chain store mean?

chain store means "one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise".

Is chain store a common word?

chain store is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.