departmental store百货公司

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

A version of the American department store，from which the British termderives．The term department store isn’t recorded until 1887，when a New York establishment advertised itself as H．H．Heyn’s Department Store，though the idea of separate departments in American stores can be found in print at least forty years earlier．

此词为英国用法，源于美国的department store。直到1887年，当时的一家纽约商店以H．H．Heyn’s Department Store的名称宣传自己，department store一词才开始使用，虽然在美国的一些商店里设立各种售货部的概念至少在此40年之前就有记载。