automall

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ mall.

Noun

automall (plural automalls)

1. A collection of car-related businesses like dealerships and garages, a car-oriented shopping center.
   • 1987 December, Greg Evans, “The automalling of kings”, in Cincinnati Magazine‎^[1], page G-6:

     What exactly is an automall? Pretty much what the name suggests. Kings Automall, upon completion, will feature ten auto dealerships and several auto-related businesses clustered along a cul de sac on seventy-five acres at the Fields-Ertel Road-I-71 intersection.

   • 2004, David A Kay, CliffsAP Statistics‎^[2], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

     The manager of the automall wants to test the claim that the six dealers are equally popular.

   • 2005 February 16, “Outlaws” (0:35:00 from the start), in Lost, spoken by James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway):

     I take comfort knowing someday this is all gonna be a real nice shopping complex. Maybe even an automall.