anchor tenant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large and popular store in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain, intended to attract a significant cross-section of customers to the mall.
Example Sentences
- "As the number of viable anchor tenants continues to contract, the bargaining leverage of these anchor tenants has increased. The difficulty and expense of negotiating arrangements with them has increased correspondingly."
- "The anchor tenants are responsible for drawing the majority of the customers to the center or mall and will do a significant amount of advertising that also brings in customers."