hypermarket
noun
hy·per·mar·ket
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Definition of hypermarket
: a very large store that carries products found in a supermarket as well as merchandise commonly found in department stores
Examples of hypermarket in a Sentence
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At hypermarkets and 24-hour convenience stores, the sales of Japanese beer have nosedived. — Washington Post, "S. Koreans shun Japanese beer, travel, cars as dispute grows," 2 Aug. 2019 Besides Jio, the other debutants in the list include the hypermarket chain DMart ($937 million) at rank 33 and the homegrown FMCG brand Patanjali ($614 million) at 51. — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, "The latest brand value of their groups reveal the diverging fortunes of the Ambani brothers," 18 July 2019 Lapy, like many towns and cities across Poland, has a British Tesco hypermarket. — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, "The EU Spent a Bundle to Unify the Continent. It’s Not Working.," 8 Aug. 2018 But large billboards advertised Western-style hypermarkets, Moscow’s boulevards choked with BMWs, Bentleys, and Rolls-Royces, and Lenin’s mausoleum shared the Red Square with the likes of Gucci and Dior. — Margarita Gokun Silver, Longreads, "The Forever Nomad," 30 Apr. 2018 In December Tencent responded with a stake in Yonghui Superstores, China’s second-largest, and is considering another in the Chinese operations of Carrefour, a French hypermarket. — The Economist, "Online retailers go offline in China," 5 Apr. 2018 The Tesco trial – the first of its kind by a major hypermarket in Malaysia – limits the bag discounts to two per transaction. — Michael Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, "With reusable plastic bag, Malaysian shoppers encouraged to limit waste," 3 Apr. 2018 The country’s fourth-biggest hypermarket operator by market share already has a tech-industry investor in e-commerce player JD.com Inc., according to Bloomberg Intelligence. — Vinicy Chan, Bloomberg.com, "Tencent to Buy Part of Supermart Chain in Rare Retail Foray," 17 Dec. 2017 The tycoon has been on an acquisition spree in recent years, buying stakes in companies from hypermarkets to milk producers. — P.r. Venkat, WSJ, "Thai Tycoon Makes Frothy Offer for Stake in Vietnam’s Largest Beer Maker," 12 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hypermarket.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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hypermarket
noun
English Language Learners Definition of hypermarket
chiefly British
: a very large supermarket
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