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brick-and-mortar

brick-and-mortar is the alternative form of brick and mortar.

Meaning of brick and mortar

Adjective

brick and mortar (not comparable)

  1. Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.)
    • Brick and mortar retail stores face online competition.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, and, mortar.

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Questions about brick-and-mortar

What is brick-and-mortar the alternative form of?
Brick-and-mortar is the alternative form of brick and mortar.

Words near brick-and-mortar in the dictionary

  1. brick wall
  2. brick walled
  3. brick walling
  4. brick walls
  5. brick-a-brack
  6. brick-and-mortar
  7. brick-breaker
  8. brick-breakers
  9. brick-buster
  10. brick-busters
  11. brick-red

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brick-and-mortar (page history and authors); brick and mortar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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