Meanings
plural automalls
- A collection of car-related businesses like dealerships and garages, a car-oriented shopping center.
The manager of the automall wants to test the claim that the six dealers are equally popular.
2004, David A Kay, CliffsAP Statistics, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN2 more examples
What exactly is an automall? Pretty much what the name suggests. Kings Automall, upon completion, will feature ten auto dealerships and several auto-related businesses clustered along a cul de sac on seventy-five acres at the Fields-Ertel Road-I-71 intersection.
1987 December 29, Greg Evans, “The automalling of kings”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page G-6I take comfort knowing someday this is all gonna be a real nice shopping complex. Maybe even an automall.
2005 February 16, “Outlaws” (0:35:00 from the start), in Lost, spoken by James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway)
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