The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LIBRARIES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LIBRARIES
- Places you can read stories about Irish gathering support
- Where people read overlapping signs
- Two groups of stars putting out ace literary collections
- Collections of overlapping signs
- Article missing from two signs leading to book stores
- Two signs merge to show where books may be had
- Overlapping signs in quiet places
- Merged 15 publicly-funded buildings
- Occasionally “laid bare” sign at quiet places
- Overlapping signs at repositories
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What does LIBRARIES mean?
LIBRARIES noun- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
- (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
- An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
- A room dedicated to storing books.
- A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
- A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
- The deck or draw pile.