英和和英

名詞

dollar store (plural dollar stores)

1. (US and Canada) A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar. (The latter type, whose name has the literal meaning, were formerly common and are now rare.)

   Hypernyms: store, shop < establishment

   Near-synonyms: five-and-dime, five-and-ten, dime store; pound shop (UK), $2 shop (AU, NZ), ten-dollar store (Hong Kong English)

2. (historical) A government-owned shop in Cuba that sold goods mainly to foreigners and solely in exchange for hard currency.

派生語

• dollar-store (attributive)

Further reading

• dollar store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

名詞

dollar-store

1. (US, Canada, attributive) Synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

   Synonyms: poor man's, Wish.com, (UK) Poundland, pound-shop, Tesco Value, BTEC

   Near-synonym: ten-cent

   • 1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34:

     Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera.

   • 2005, Ayana D. Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95:

     Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.

   • 2012 October 31, Rose DiManno, “Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper”, in Toronto Star:

     We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dollar-store.