shop

IPA: ʃˈɑp

noun

  • An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
  • A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
  • A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
  • Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
  • (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
  • A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
  • An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
  • An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
  • (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
  • A small village in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2214).
  • A neighbourhood of St Merryn, St Merryn parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8773).

verb

  • (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
  • (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
  • (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
  • (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
  • (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
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Examples of "shop" in Sentences

  • The shop is vendible.
  • She loves to shop studs.
  • She shops to buy stockinettes.
  • A quake destroys the herb shop.
  • Homemade food is offered in the coffee shop.
  • A souvenir shop is at the back of the annex.
  • In the centre is the Steinberg Shopping Centre.
  • In the basement of the lodge, there is a rental shop.
  • 'And when I say a shop,' Hugo pursued, 'I mean a _shop_.'
  • In 1989, he was arrested for shoplifting a bag of dog food from a pet shop.
  • The couple slept in roll away beds in the repair shop at the rear of the store.
  • Thank goodness it occurred to me at once to say that I went into the tobacco shop to buy stamps and I must have left it in the _shop_.
  • I think he must have tried calling it… cos after I ran in my boots across from the shoe shop past the bedding shop… he was behind me saying it doesn’t work ...
  • In regard to the daily, or even the occasional use of the stronger drugs of the apothecary's shop -- whether this _shop_ is found in the family or elsewhere -- I would fain hope many of our young women may claim an entire immunity.
  • The main shop is across from a convenience store that carries Victoria beer and almost always has ice and next door to the tiendita is a place where they husk coconuts, you can tell by the huge pile of husks outside, no line-up of taxis.

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