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[shop] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, shopped, shop·ping, interjection
[shop] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, shopped, shop·ping, interjection –noun
–verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
–interjection
—Idioms
| 1. | a retail store, esp. a small one. |
| 2. | a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods: the ski shop at Smith's. |
| 3. | the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan. |
| 4. | the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work: a carpenter's shop. |
| 5. | any factory, office, or business: Our ad agency is a well-run shop. |
| 6. | Education.
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| 7. | one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation. |
| 8. | to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods. |
| 9. | to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale: Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York. |
| 10. | to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually fol. by for): I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest. |
| 11. | to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by: She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon. |
| 12. | Chiefly British Informal.
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| 13. | Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract. |
| 14. | (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.) |
| 15. | set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations: to set up shop as a taxidermist. |
| 16. | shut up shop,
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| 17. | talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business: After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop. |
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME shoppe (n.), OE sceoppa booth; akin to scypen stall, shippon, G Schopf lean-to, Schuppen shed]
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| shop
(shŏp) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. shopped, shop·ping, shops v. intr.
v. tr. To visit or buy from (a particular store). Phrasal Verb(s): shop around
Idiom(s): talk shop To talk about one's work. [Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa, treasure house.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
shop (n.)
shop (n.)
1297, perhaps from O.E. scoppa "booth or shed for trade or work" (rare), related to scypen "cowshed," from P.Gmc. *skoppan "small additional structure" (cf. O.H.G. scopf "building without walls, porch," Ger. dial. Scopf "porch, cart-shed, barn," Ger. Schuppen "a shed"), from base *skupp-. But it's likely that the M.E. word was acquired from O.Fr. eschoppe "booth, stall," which is a Gmc. loan-word from the same root. Meaning "schoolroom equipped for teaching vocational arts" is from 1914, Amer.Eng. Sense of "matters pertaining to one's trade" is from 1814 (as in to talk shop, 1860). Shopping cart is recorded from 1956; shopping list first attested 1913; transf. and fig. use is from 1959.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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shop (v.)
shop (v.)
1688, "to bring something to a shop, to expose for sale," from shop (n.). The meaning "to visit shops" is first attested 1764. Shop around is from 1922.
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| shop | |
noun | |
| 1. | a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" |
| 2. | small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop] |
| 3. | a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop class] |
verb | |
| 1. | do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday" |
| 2. | do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize] [ant: boycott] |
| 3. | shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" |
| 4. | give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
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In addition to the idiom beginning with shop, also see bull in a china shop; close up (shop); set up (shop); shut up (shop); talk shop.
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Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott.
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shop
- To contact a number of dealers in a security in an effort to obtain the most advantageous bid or ask price.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: shop
Function: noun
: a business establishment : a place of employment —see also CLOSED SHOP, OPEN SHOP, UNION SHOP
Main Entry: shop
Function: noun
: a business establishment : a place of employment —see also CLOSED SHOP, OPEN SHOP, UNION SHOP
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Shop\, n. 1. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- generally in deprecation. 2. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc. 3. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
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Shop
Shop\, obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped. --Chaucer.
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Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.]1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. --Cowper. 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. --Shak. Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc. To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.] Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.
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Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. --Byron.
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