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shop (s̸häp)
noun
- a place where certain goods or services are offered for sale; esp., a small store
- a specialized department in a large store the gourmet shop
- a place where a particular kind of work is done a printing shop
- ☆ in some schools, an industrial arts course, class, or department
Etymology: ME schoppe < OE sceoppa, booth, stall, akin to Ger schopf, porch < IE base *(s)keup-, a bundle, sheaf of straw: prob. basic meaning “roof made of straw thatch”
intransitive verb shopped, shopping shop′·ping
transitive verb
- ☆ Informal to shop at (a specified store)
- Brit., Slang
- to inform on, esp. to the police
- to arrest or imprison
- Informal to offer for sale: often with around
set up shop
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.
shut up shop
- to close a place of business, as for the night
- to go out of business
talk shop
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
shop
n.
set up shop
shut up shop*
talk shop
Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Converse of object
- bet: Betfred is the world's largest independent bookmaker with over 450 betting shops.
Preposition: for
- classified: Find Teaching Employment on Gumtree.com Visit gumtree.com, your one-stop shop for online classifieds in London.
Adjective modifier
- one-stop: There is also a large number of people who arrive in one-stop shops with official forms from every possible source in unopened brown envelopes.
Modifies a noun
- steward: They must be informed of their right to be accompanied by a fellow employe or representative, shop steward or trade union official.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: To shop around with your insurance obvious violations by.
Possessives
- butcher: That was the day when Alun Jones opened his butcher's shop with the aim of providing high-quality local meat to the local market.
Noun used with modifier
- coffee: Coffee shop at Finn Gold Cup reports record sales!
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Well you know,Chris, we've got to give them something Genesis and I think we'll give them this talking shop in Strasbourgöthe Council of Europe.
This ain't the shop for justice.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.
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