English Explanatory Dictionary

brick and mortar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

brick and mortar brick-and-mortar bricks and mortar bricks-and-mortar

Synonyms

physical traditional old-fashioned

Antonyms

online internet
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