HIGHSTREET
High Street
High Street is a metonym for the concept of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. To distinguish it from 'centres' of nearby places it is frequently preceded unofficially by the name of its settlement. In a town it implies the focal point for business, especially shops and street stalls in town and city centres. As a generic shorthand presupposed upon linear settlements it may be used to denote more precise concepts such as the urban retail sector, town centre sectors of employment, all small shops and services outlets and even wider concepts taking in social concepts.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: High Street
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high street
Noun
- The main street of any town.
- Mainstream shops, banks, etc. that can be found on such a street, in contrast to more specialist shops and services.
- Physical, bricks and mortar shops, in contrast to Internet shops.
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