TELECOMMUTE VOCABULARY: BRICKS AND MORTAR

Welcome back, everyone!

We are continuing with our theme for the week: Telecommuting (= teleworking) Vocabulary. Today's expression is BRICKS AND MORTAR.

Definition: A business with a physical location (such as a retail shop, a doctor's office, or a factory). 

Example 1: Sometimes I miss working at a bricks and mortar. But other days I remember what a pain it was to take the metro to work every day. 

Example 2: We used to have a bricks-and-mortar store, but now we are entirely online.

(NOTE: we use the hyphenated version, BRICKS-AND-MORTAR, when we use this expression as an adjective.)

Example 3: Our prices are lower than other marketing firms because we aren’t a bricks-and-mortar business and never have been.

In North American English, the expression is BRICK AND MORTAR, without the "s" on BRICK.

We hope you enjoyed this Wednesday lesson. We will see you tomorrow for our fourth lesson of this week!