small stores

1. 1.

   personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay

   Broadercommissary

   plural

Questions about small stores

What does small stores mean?

small stores means "personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay".

Is small stores a common word?

small stores 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.