an outlet for the sale of liquor, beer, and wines, operated by the liquor control board of a province or the liquor commission of a territory.
See also: liquor store
- 1938  Within the city limits, beer can only be sold in dozens to people with a twenty-five cent permit in the Government Liquor store, where they also sell every other kind of intoxicant.
- 1966  . . . the tiny weather-beaten, peaked-roofed building sits humbly in the shadow of a shiny Government liquor store. . . .