shop
Americannoun
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a retail store, especially a small one.
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a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods.
the ski shop at Smith's.
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the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
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the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work.
a carpenter's shop.
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any factory, office, or business.
Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
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Education.
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a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
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a classroom in which such a course is given.
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one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
verb (used without object)
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to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
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to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale.
Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.
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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)
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to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by.
She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
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Chiefly British Informal.
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to put into prison; jail.
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to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
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Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
interjection
idioms
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set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations.
to set up shop as a taxidermist.
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talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business.
After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.
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shut up shop,
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to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
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to suspend business operations permanently.
They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
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noun
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a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services
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an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping
the weekly shop
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a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop
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informal
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in disarray
his papers were all over the shop
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in every direction
I've searched for it all over the shop
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to close business at the end of the day or permanently
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to become defensive or inactive
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to speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed
verb
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to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them
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slang (tr) to inform on or betray, esp to the police
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have shoppedperfect
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has shoppedperfect 3rd person singular
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are shoppingprogressive
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is shoppingprogressive 3rd person singular
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shopssingular 3rd person
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have been shoppingperfect progressive
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has been shoppingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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am shoppingprogressive 1st person singular
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shoppingparticiple
Past
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had shoppedperfect
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were shoppingprogressive plural
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was shoppingprogressive singular
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had been shoppingperfect progressive
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shoppedparticiple
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shoppedsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of shop
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English shoppe (noun), Old English sceoppa “booth”; akin to scypen “stall” ( see shippon), German Schopf “lean-to,” Schuppen “shed”
Example Sentences
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Problems remain, too, with HealthCare.gov’s sibling, the small business, or SHOP, exchange.
From Forbes • Feb. 23, 2015
First, when states wrote the rules creating the health-insurance exchanges, some required insurers doing lots of in-state business or participating in the individual market exchange to also sell plans on SHOP.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2013
The small business marketplace, also called SHOP, was supposed to provide employers a new way to shop for coverage, and the delay was met with frustration.
From Time • Nov. 27, 2013
For instance, administration officials last year postponed a requirement under the law that small-business employees be guaranteed a choice among health plans in their areas — a main selling point of SHOP.
From Washington Post
I brought out the tea in a mug that used to say ADOPT, DON’T SHOP.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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