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five-and-dime store

noun as in department store

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

This Francie is 19 and works at a Brooklyn five-and-dime store, where she trills the songs of the day so customers can decide whether they want to buy the sheet music.

Randy Blevins, 70, had worked at the Walmart for more than 30 years after owning his own five-and-dime store.

When Theo was a teenager, he got a job at the local five-and-dime store.

The officer turned right on Main Street and headed toward Bonetti Ranch, passing familiar sites I figured I would never see again: Main Street Elementary School; Kress, the five-and-dime store; the Texaco gas station where we got our drinking water.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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