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anchor tenants

anchor tenants is the plural of anchor tenant.

Meaning of anchor tenant

Noun

anchor tenant (plural anchor tenants)

  1. A large and popular store in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain, intended to attract a significant cross-section of customers to the mall.
    • As the number of viable anchor tenants continues to contract, the bargaining leverage of these anchor tenants has increased. The difficulty and expense of negotiating arrangements with them has increased correspondingly.1996, John R. White, Kevin D. Gray, Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties, page 59
    Synonyms:
    anchor store

Questions about anchor tenants

What is anchor tenants the plural of?
Anchor tenants is the plural of anchor tenant.

Words near anchor tenants in the dictionary

  1. anchor space
  2. anchor spaces
  3. anchor store
  4. anchor stores
  5. anchor tenant
  6. anchor tenants
  7. anchor worm
  8. anchor worms
  9. anchor's aweigh
  10. anchor-hoy
  11. anchor-hoys

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