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shop⋅ping

  [shop-ing]
Use shopping in a Sentence
–noun
1. the act of a person who shops.
2. the facilities or merchandise available to those who shop: Chicago has good shopping.
–adjective
3. of, for, or pertaining to examining and buying merchandise: a shopping trip.
Origin:
1755–65; shop + -ing 1 , -ing 2
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shop

  [shop] noun, verb, shopped, shop⋅ping, interjection
–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
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