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shop
[shop]
noun
a retail store, especially a small one.
a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods.
the ski shop at Smith's.
the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work.
a carpenter's shop.
any factory, office, or business.
Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
Education.
a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
a classroom in which such a course is given.
one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
verb (used without object)
to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale.
Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.
to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed byfor ).
I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.
verb (used with object)
to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by.
She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
Chiefly British Informal.
to put into prison; jail.
to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
Slang., to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
interjection
(used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)
shop
/ ʃɒp /
noun
a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services
an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping
the weekly shop
a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop
informal
in disarray
his papers were all over the shop
in every direction
I've searched for it all over the shop
to close business at the end of the day or permanently
to become defensive or inactive
to speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed
verb
to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them
slang, (tr) to inform on or betray, esp to the police
Other Word Forms
- intershop adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of shop1
Idioms and Phrases
set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations.
to set up shop as a taxidermist.
talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business.
After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.
shut up shop,
to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
to suspend business operations permanently.
They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
More idioms and phrases containing shop
- bull in a china shop
- close up (shop)
- set up (shop)
- shut up (shop)
- talk shop
Example Sentences
Muir Woods was able to reopen for a nine-day period beginning last week, thanks to a donation from a coalition of concessionaires that operate the park’s parking, cafe, gift shop and tours.
Novo Nordisk has been on a shopping spree in recent months as part of a major shake-up at the company that began with the appointment of a new chief executive earlier this year.
“It’s a joke,” he added, while eating a smash burger at a custom-car shop.
She says she gets customers who visit the shop with suspected fake products to check if they are real.
"It's been our busiest year yet for Halloween," says cafe and gift shop owner Charlotte Brennan.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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