strip mall

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   a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot

   Broadermercantile establishment

Questions about strip mall

What does strip mall mean?

strip mall means "a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot".

Is strip mall a common word?

strip mall 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.