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noun
1.
a retail store, especially 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.
EXPANDany factory, office, or business: Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
verb (used without object)
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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 followed by for): I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.
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Shops
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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
Idioms14.
(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,
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; Middle English shoppe (noun), Old English sceoppa booth; akin to scypen stall, shippon, German Schopf lean-to, Schuppen shed
1250–1300; Middle English shoppe (noun), Old English sceoppa booth; akin to scypen stall, shippon, German Schopf lean-to, Schuppen shed
Related forms
in·ter·shop, adjective
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shop
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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