Wal-Mart

present singular third person Wal-Marts · participle present Wal-Marting · participle past Wal-Marted · past Wal-Marted

1. Former spelling of Walmart.

   The state’s fledgling pot market, envisioned as a low-key, mom-and-pop industry, would be Wal-Marted, some feared.

   2016 March 25, Rick Anderson, “Laws may usher in Big Marijuana”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A15, column 1

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   Sometimes people write in and they say, “Joe Bob, don’t you have nothin GOOD to report about drive-ins?” and the answer is usually we’re too busy savin the old ones from gettin flea-marketed, condoed or Wal-Marted.

   1987 September 18, Joe Bob Briggs [pseudonym; John Irving Bloom], “‘Bad’ video pre-empts college football”, in El Paso Times, volume 107, El Paso, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, “El Tiempo” section, page 10

   Merchants in small communities have been “Wal-Marted” by the general merchandise chain store in the nearby larger community.

   1992, Cornelia Flora, Jan L. Flora, Louis E. Swanson, Mark Weinberg, Rural Communities: Legacy & Change, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 267

   Finally, Munneke suggested that smaller communities like Akron are already susceptible to being “Wal-Marted” by any of the large firms in Cleveland or any number of national law firms who might come in and craft a nominal fee-sharing arrangement with local counsel under Rule 1.5(e).

   2001, ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, volume 17, number 12, page 354