Shop definition
An atelier; a studio.
noun
A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
noun
A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.
noun
A home workshop.
noun
A commercial or industrial establishment.
A printing shop.
noun
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To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.
verb
To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.
verb
A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.
noun
Shop is defined as to visit stores and buy goods.
An example of shop is to go to the mall and buy some clothing.
verb
The definition of a shop is a store or the work area of a person in a trade.
An example of shop is the local grocery store.
An example of shop is where the cars are fixed in an auto repair center.
noun
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A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.
noun
The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.
noun
To visit or buy from (a particular store).
verb
A place where a particular kind of work is done.
A printing shop.
noun
In some schools, an industrial arts course, class, or department.
noun
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A place where certain goods or services are offered for sale; esp., a small store.
noun
A specialized department in a large store.
The gourmet shop.
noun
To visit a shop or shops so as to look at and buy or price things for sale.
verb
(informal) To shop at (a specified store)
verb
(informal) To offer for sale.
verb
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To inform on, esp. to the police.
verb
To arrest or imprison.
verb
A place of business or employment; a factory, office, or other business establishment. A shop may be open, closed, or union.
noun
A shop where working conditions are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between management and a labor union. Union membership is required as a condition of working there.
A shop where union membership is not a precondition of employment. Union members and nonunion members may work side by side.
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A shop in which all workers are members of a union. Nonunion members may be allowed to work there, provided that they agree to join the union.
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
noun
(business, computing) An organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
Our company is mostly a Java shop.
noun
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
This is where I do my weekly shop.
noun
(intransitive) To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
He's shopping for clothes.
verb
(slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
He shopped his mates in to the police.
verb
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Used to attract the services of a shop assistant.
interjection
talk shop
- To talk about one's work.
idiom
set up shop
- to open or start a business
idiom
shop around
- to go from shop to shop, looking for bargains or special items
- to search about for a good or better job, idea, etc.
idiom
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shut up shop
- to close a place of business, as for the night
- to go out of business
idiom
talk shop
- to discuss one's work
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of shop
- Middle English shoppe from Old English sceoppa treasure house
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa, scoppa (“shop, booth, shed"), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed"), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault"). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed"), German Schober (“barn").
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