Why isn't "store" in the plural in the sentence below?
More than 7,400 store closures have been announced this year
The sentence is from Financial Times.
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Sign up to join this communityIn this case, the noun isn't 'store', the noun is 'store closure'.
The author is not talking about the stores themselves, but is referring to the fact that they are closing.