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shop

  [shop] noun, verb, shopped, shop⋅ping, interjection
Use shop in a Sentence
–noun
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.
a. a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
b. a classroom in which such a course is given.
7. one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
–verb (used without object)
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
a. to put into prison; jail.
b. to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
13. Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
–interjection
14. (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)
—Idioms
15. set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations: to set up shop as a taxidermist.
16. shut up shop,
a. to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
b. to suspend business operations permanently: They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
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)   
n.  

  1. also shoppe A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.

  2. An atelier; a studio.

  3. A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.

  4. A commercial or industrial establishment: a printing shop.

  5. A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.

  6. A home workshop.

    1. A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.

    2. The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.

v.   shopped, shop·ping, shops

v.   intr.

  1. To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.

  2. To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.

v.   tr.
To visit or buy from (a particular store).
Phrasal Verb(s):
shop around

  1. To go from store to store in search of merchandise or bargains.

  2. To look for something, such as a better job.

  3. To offer (a large block of common stock, for example) for sale to various parties: "[The company] is now actively being shopped around, with a prospectus in circulation" (Marianne Yen).


Idiom(s):
talk shopTo talk about one's work.

[Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa, treasure house.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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.

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

shop

A dealership in securities.


shop

To contact a number of dealers in a security in an effort to obtain the most advantageous bid or ask price.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Legal Dictionary

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.
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Idioms & Phrases

shop

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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