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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