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noun
- 1. a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold; a store: "a card shop"
- 2. a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop: "an auto repair shop"
verb
- 1. visit one or more stores or websites to buy goods: "she shopped for groceries twice a week"
- 2. inform on (someone): informal British "a concerned member of the public had shopped him—wrongly—for accepting monetary reward"
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SHOP definition: 1. a building or part of a building where you can buy things: 2. to buy things in shops: . Learn more.
Definition of shop noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. shop. noun. /ʃɒp/ /ʃɑːp/ Idioms. where you buy something. [countable] (especially British English) a building or part of a building where you can buy goods or services. to open/close/run a shop. There's a good selection of local shops. a record/pet shop. a shoe shop.
Shop definition: a retail store, especially a small one. See examples of SHOP used in a sentence.
4 days ago · 1. countable noun. A shop is a small store that sells one type of merchandise . ...a gift shop. He and his wife run their own antiques shop. 2. countable noun. A shop is a building or part of a building where things are sold. [mainly British] regional note: in AM, usually use store.
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Etymology
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”)(< Germanic).
Pronunciation
1. (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɒp/ 2. (US) enPR: shäp, IPA(key): /ʃɑp/ 3. Rhymes: -ɒp
Noun
shop (countable and uncountable, plural shops) 1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. 1.1. 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem,[…], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC: 1.1.1. From shop to shop/ Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter. 2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop. 2.1. c. 1594 (date w...
Etymology
Borrowed from English shop.
Noun
shop m (plural shops, diminutive shopje n) 1. shop 1.1. Synonym: winkel
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ʃɔp/
Noun
shop f (plural shops) 1. (Canada, anglicism) workshop
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shop.
Noun
shop n (plural shopuri) 1. a small shop 2. (historical) a hard currency shop
THESAURUS shop especially British English, store especially American English a building or place where things are sold She's gone to the shops to get some milk. a clothes shop Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam. boutique a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects a little boutique which specializes in bath pro...
n. a retail store, esp. 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. Building the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan. Building the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work: a carpenter's shop.
