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Store(tourism)
store(1)(dictionary)
in-store(dictionary)
in-store(dictionary)
Store(money)
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Mom and Pop Store(money)
Box Store(money)
Store(medicine)

store(1) (iou)



store noun, adjective, & adverb. ME.
[Aphet. from Old French estor, from estorer STORE verb.]
A. noun.
a. That with which a household, camp, etc., is stocked; food, clothing, etc., collected for future use. Now rare. ME.
Shelley The garrison of Patras Has store but for ten days.
b. In pl. Articles as food, clothing, arms, etc., accumulated so as to be available for a particular purpose (orig. esp. for the equipment and maintenance of an army, a ship, etc.); Aeronautics slang guns, bombs, etc. carried on an aircraft. M17.
a. A place where stores are kept, a warehouse, a storehouse. ME.
b. Computing. = MEMORY noun 1c. M19.
Storage, reserve, keeping. Now rare exc. in in store, in store for below. ME.
A person's possessions; accumulated goods or money. Now rare. ME.
Dryden Increase thy Wealth, and double all thy Store.
Livestock. In later use chiefly in young store, old store. ME-L17.
A body of people. LME-M16.
Value, worth. Now only in set store by, set great store by, set little store by, etc. below. LME.
Sufficient or abundant supply (of something needed); plenty, abundance (of food etc.). Now rare. L15.
M. Arnold Oft thou hast given them store Of flowers.
a. A quantity of something kept available for future use; a reserve, a deposit, a stock. L15.
P. S. Buck His wretched store of a few dried beans and a bowlful of corn. G. Daly The outbursts used up her small store of strength.
b. In pl. Stocks, reserves; treasures, accumulated resources. E16.
A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening. Also, an animal kept for breeding or as part of the ordinary stock of a farm. E17.
store bullock, store cattle, store cow, store lamb, store sheep, store stock, etc.
A place where goods are kept for sale; esp. a large shop dealing in a great variety of articles; a retail outlet, a chain of retail outlets; gen. (N. Amer. & Austral.) a shop of any size. E18.
chain store, cooperative store, department store, etc.; store buyer, store detective, etc.
M. Meyer A general store which sold practically everything.
Phrases: FIVE-and-ten cent store. good store, great store arch. & poet. abundance. immediate access store: see IMMEDIATE adjective. in good store, in great store arch. & poet. in abundance. in store in reserve, laid up for future use. in store for (of future events or conditions) awaiting, prepared for (a person). keep store N. Amer. own or manage a shop. MONOPRIX store. multiple store: see MULTIPLE adjective. NAVAL stores. set store by, set great store by, set little store by, etc., regard as of (great, little, etc.) worth or value. small stores: see SMALL adjective. the Stores colloq. (now rare) a large department store, orig. and esp. one run by a cooperative society.
Comb.: store-bought, (US dial.) store-boughten adjectives bought (esp. ready-made) from a store, not home-made; store church N. Amer. a church set up in a (vacant) shop; store-farm (chiefly Scot.) a farm on which animals are reared, a stock farm; storehouse a building in which goods are stored; transf. & fig. a store or treasury from which something may be obtained in plenty, an abundant store (of); storekeeper a person who has charge of a store or stores; a person who superintends the receipt and issue of stores; N. Amer. & Austral. a shopkeeper; storeman a storekeeper, esp. in the army; N. Amer. & Austral. a person who keeps or serves in a store, a shopkeeper; store pay N. Amer. (now rare) payment made in goods rather than cash; storeroom (a) a room set apart for the storing of goods or supplies, esp. those of a ship or household; (b) rare storage space; storeship a ship employed to carry military or naval stores; storesman = storeman above; store-wide adjective operating or applying throughout the whole of a store.
b. adjective (pred. & postpositive) & adverb. In plenty, abundant(ly). Also good store, great store. Now arch. & dial. M16.