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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shopping precinct
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the burnt-out shopping precinct past the Beni Tourstravel shop, there is a coffee shop with blue barstools.
▪ James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
▪ The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
▪ The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.
Wiktionary
shopping precinct

n. (context US English) shopping mall; shopping centre

Usage examples of "shopping precinct".

But then I thought I really ought to have a look around the town, so I paid the bill and hauled myself off through the shopping precinct to have a look at Harrogate's newest feature, the Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre.

Down a small street that led between the shopping precinct and the castle grounds, Juele spotted Sangweiler hard at work with a trowel and a bucket.

In Atlanta, the Niketown shop was in Phipps Plaza, Buckhead, an expensive shopping precinct, and the outside of the shop was covered with huge posters of Nike's stars, including Cathy.

They docked at a new port and warehouse complex which had sprung up in the place of the old shopping precinct and Queensgate mall.

Across the street was a similar row, but of smaller houses, and beyond them, just up Blue Lake Road, a shopping precinct.

The outburst of violence in the shopping precinct had died down, just a few skinheads still shouting insults at the police as a few of their comrades were loaded into the waiting black maria on the car park at the rear.

The place was a little cramped, and the view from the veranda outside the sliding glass doors was of indoor pedestrian galleries and a shopping precinct with a maglev line.

In the shopping precinct opposite Russell Square Station, boys were playing on skateboards.

Where the station buildings now stand is due to become an office block and shopping precinct.

If he's still at large byMonday night he's going to be at the shopping precinct.

THE SECURITY patrol was systematically scouring a section of suburbia, a convoy of armoured trucks infiltrating a pedestrianised shopping precinct, weaving its way between piles of debris, powdering broken glass beneath its wheels.

It was situated right in the middle of a downtown shopping precinct, on a not particularly busy corner, and it all looked innocent enough.

The She-God Wooma's head had fallen off on its first outing, nearly killing a baby outside Boots in the Newbury shopping precinct.

A shopping precinct looms like a scaffold-clad castle above the older stores.

I passed through a shopping precinct where there were many people drifting from one store to another.