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  • 1Wide Variety — A merchandising strategy in which a retailer stocks a large number of different products. A wide variety is used to draw in customers looking for an array of goods, but does not mean that the retailer will offer many different iterations of a… …

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  • 2wide — [wīd] adj. wider, widest [ME < OE wid, akin to Ger weit < IE * wi itos, lit., gone apart (< bases * wi , apart + * ei , to go) > L vitare, lit., to go away from, avoid] 1. extending over a large area; esp., extending over a larger… …

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  • 3variety — va‧ri‧e‧ty [vəˈraɪəti] noun varieties PLURALFORM [countable] a particular type of a product: • We sell over 50 different varieties of beer. * * * variety UK US /vəˈraɪəti/ noun (plural varieties) ► [C] one particular type of a thing: » …

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  • 4wide-ranging — adj written including a wide variety of subjects, things, or people ▪ a wide ranging discussion ▪ wide ranging proposals to improve the rail network …

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  • 5Variety store — a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a {five and ten}. [PJC] …

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  • 6variety store — ☆ variety store n. a retail store that sells a wide variety of relatively small and inexpensive items …

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  • 7variety */*/*/ — UK [vəˈraɪətɪ] / US noun Word forms variety : singular variety plural varieties 1) a) [singular] a collection or number of people, things, ideas etc that are all different from one another variety of: People study yoga for a variety of reasons.… …

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  • 8variety — va|ri|e|ty [ və raıəti ] noun *** 1. ) singular a collection or number of people, things, ideas, etc. that are all different from one another: variety of: People study yoga for a variety of reasons. We want to hear the opinions of a variety of… …

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  • 9variety — noun 1 not being the same; different kinds of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ amazing, astonishing, bewildering, broad, considerable, endless, enormous, extraordinary, fascinating (esp. BrE) …

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  • 10variety — va|ri|e|ty W1S2 [vəˈraıəti] n plural varieties [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: variété, from Latin varietas, from varius; VARIOUS] 1.) a variety of sth a lot of things of the same type that are different from each other in some way ▪ The… …

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