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High Street

noun

  1. the main street of a town, usually where the principal shops are situated

  2. the market constituted by the general public

  3. (modifier) geared to meet the requirements of, and readily available for purchase by, the general public

    High-Street fashion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It's pitch black and we're crawling along a secret underground tunnel beneath a high street in Hull.

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So, in some ways, these high street shop fronts connect the various domestic problems facing Britain today.

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Of course, there have long been pockets of criminality on the UK high street.

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In one week we repeatedly witnessed counterfeit and smuggled tobacco being sold in high street mini marts - and were threatened by shop workers who grabbed our cameras when we tried to film them.

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British High Street bank TSB is being sold off by its Spanish-owner to rival Santander in a deal worth up to £2.9bn.

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