hypermarket

hypermarket
/huy"peuhr mahr'kit/, n. Chiefly Brit.
a combined supermarket and department store.
[1965-70; HYPER- + MARKET, trans. of F hypermarché, on the model of supermarché SUPERMARKET]

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