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brick and mortar

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Adjective

  1. Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.)
  2. Alternative form of brick and mortar.

Noun

  1. Buildings, especially domestic housing.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, and, mortar.

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