Shop definition
A printing shop.
An example of shop is to go to the mall and buy some clothing.
An example of shop is the local grocery store.
An example of shop is where the cars are fixed in an auto repair center.
A printing shop.
The gourmet shop.
Our company is mostly a Java shop.
This is where I do my weekly shop.
I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
He's shopping for clothes.
He shopped his mates in to the police.
- To talk about one's work.
- to open or start a business
- to go from shop to shop, looking for bargains or special items
- to search about for a good or better job, idea, etc.
- to close a place of business, as for the night
- to go out of business
- to discuss one's work
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").
From Wiktionary