From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshopping precinctˈshopping ˌprecinct noun [countable] British English BBTAREAan area in a town where there are a lot of shops and where cars are not allowed
Examples from the Corpus
shopping precinct• James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.• The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.• In the burnt-out shopping precinct past the Beni Tourstravel shop, there is a coffee shop with blue barstools.• The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.• The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling. 