Shop Definition
shŏp
shopped, shopping, shops
noun
shops
A specialized department in a large store.
The gourmet shop.
Webster's New World
A place where certain goods or services are offered for sale; esp., a small store.
Webster's New World
An atelier; a studio.
American Heritage
A place where a particular kind of work is done.
A printing shop.
Webster's New World
A commercial or industrial establishment.
A printing shop.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- workshop
- store
- shop class
- discuss one's work
- exchange views
- talk business
- cease functioning
- go out of business
- start
- close-down
- open up business
- repair shop
- novelty shop
- dry-goods store
- retail store
verb
shopped, shopping, shops
To visit a shop or shops so as to look at and buy or price things for sale.
Webster's New World
To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.
American Heritage
To inform on, esp. to the police.
Webster's New World
To shop at (a specified store)
Webster's New World
To arrest or imprison.
Webster's New World
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interjection
Used to attract the services of a shop assistant.
Wiktionary
idiom
talk shop
- To talk about one's work.
American Heritage
set up shop
- to open or start a business
Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World
shut up shop
- to close a place of business, as for the night
- to go out of business
Webster's New World
talk shop
- to discuss one's work
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Shop
Origin of Shop
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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
Middle English shoppe from Old English sceoppa treasure house
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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