shopfront

(also shop front)

/ˈʃɒpfrʌnt/ noun [C] UK (US storefront)

Definition

› COMMERCE the outside part of a store that faces the street: The High Street became a series of boarded-up shopfronts.

› (also web shopfront) E-COMMERCE a website where goods or services are sold: There are links to sellers' own online shopfronts.

(Definition of shopfront noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future

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