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px store

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
px -s-tore
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a store that sells import-restricted imported grocery items

Etymology

From PX (“Post Exchange of the U.S. Military”) + store, due to the initially illegal import trade in the then-US military bases in the Philippines, particularly Pampanga's Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base in Subic Bay. Its illicit trade died out when trade was liberalized around the 1990s, opening the door for legal freeport zones in Clark and Subic Bay for more legalized imported goods in duty-free stores and supermarkets instead.

Inflected Forms

PX stores (plural)

Phrases

PX goods

Frequently Paired Words

PX goods

Questions

What does px store mean?
a store that sells import-restricted imported grocery items
Where does px store come from?
From PX (“Post Exchange of the U.S. Military”) + store, due to the initially illegal import trade in the then-US military bases in the Philippines, particularly Pampanga's Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base in Subic Bay. Its illicit trade died out when trade was liberalized around the 1990s, opening the door for legal freeport zones in Clark and Subic Bay for more legalized imported goods in duty-free stores and supermarkets instead.

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