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five-and-dime

[fahyv-uhn-dahym] / ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm /
NOUN
dime store
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NOUN
ten-cent store
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Newberry’s five-and-dime store, she worked for a month and a half to pay it off in installments, wearing it for years until it all but disintegrated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

He was the youngest of five children who grew up in Scituate, Mass., where his parents owned the local five-and-dime store.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023

“We’ve had so much growth, so much influx of folks that the small-town historical Bentonville that was the Sam Walton Bentonville where the five-and-dime started is virtually unrecognizable.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

This was the headquarters for a five-and-dime company that, a century ago, was the symbol of American dynamism and of the emerging middle class when anything seemed possible in the country.

From New York Times • May 6, 2020

Now the diminutive freshman waited nervously in his dorm room, dressed in his best suit and preparing to risk everything for the right to order a cup of coffee at a five-and-dime lunch counter.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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