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UK
/hˈaɪpəmˌɑːkɪt/
]
[ US /ˈhaɪpɝˌmɑɹkɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪpɝˌmɑɹkɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town)
How To Use hypermarket In A Sentence
- On the return journey, within a couple of miles of the hoverport in Calais there is a range of hypermarkets and wine stores where you can stock up with as much as you can cram into the car boot at prices that beggar belief.
- There are an abundance of new stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets.
- If they all close down because of competition from big hypermarkets five miles outside town, and you haven't got a car, what do you do?
- It is a bloated consumer society where everyone's material needs are glutted - where a trip to the hypermarket involves shoving three brimming shopping trolleys together to form a wagon train but where nobody's emotional needs are met.
- As late as 1971 there was a prohibitive law making the opening of supermarkets and hypermarkets dependent on the issue of three different types of licence and the approval of two distinct levels of government.
- Two Czech students hoodwinked the media and most of Prague by the look of it, make-believing that they were building a hypermarket and shopping precinct.
- The produce and fish departments at Carrefour's Chinese hypermarkets resemble traditional outdoor markets.
- The small shopkeepers realized that the hypermarket will take away some of their trade.
- Some critics are not convinced that future shoppers will abandon malls and hypermarkets.
- It is less common to have free access in a store, although the growth of large hypermarkets and shopping malls is changing this custom.