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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dollar store" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use "dollar store" to refer to a retail store that sells items for $1 or less (e.g. Dollar Tree, Dollar General). It can also be used to describe a store that sells a variety of inexpensive items. Example: I need to buy some party supplies, so I'm going to stop by the dollar store on my way home.
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dollar store
noun
A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar.
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"Or a dollar store".
Ashtrays from the dollar store (Mr. Rivera used about 200).
A new dollar store is going to open.
"Salad bowls from the dollar store," Ms. Martinez says.
Others were accused of breaking into a dollar store.
Natunewicz [13] provides counts, by state, for the four leading dollar store retailers.
Even in Texas, dollar store density is considerably smaller at 86 stores per million residents.
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Well, more like a two-dollar store.
We are awakening to a dollar-store economy.
Bob Hamilton advises the troubled independent-dollar-store manager on the tactics needed to survive and thrive in the dollar-store economy.
Diversifying ever since: Omni hotels, Gold's Gym, Mexican dollar-store chain Waldo's.
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