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colmado

colmado noun: a corner store.

Noun

colmado (plural colmados)

  1. (Dominican-Republic) A corner store.
    • The beaches are beautiful but the people even more so and I think you will come away with a lot more from your visit if you venture outside the tourist districts. Make an effort to get into the poorer areas which lie on the outskirts of the big cities and spend a day at a colmado.1997 January 19, Robert W. Boyd, “Coming to Visit”, in soc.culture. (Usenet)
    • Flexibility, fairness, and amicability with customers were extremely important qualities of a successful colmado. At least one colmado in Santa Lucia suffered significant business losses because of development of a reputation for unfairness and inflexibility. The successful long-term capturing of...2010, David Himmelgreen, The Global Food Crisis, page 64

Forms of colmado

pluralcolmados

Origin of colmado

Borrowed from Spanish colmado.

Questions about colmado

What does colmado mean?
Colmado means a corner store.
What part of speech is colmado?
Colmado is a noun.
What is the plural of colmado?
The plural of colmado is colmados.

Words near colmado in the dictionary

  1. Collyweston slates
  2. collywobbled
  3. collywobbles
  4. Colm
  5. Colma
  6. colmado
  7. Colman
  8. Colmar
  9. colmascope
  10. colmascopes
  11. colmatage

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