Shop

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  • noun. A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
  • noun. An atelier; a studio.
  • noun. A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.
  • noun. A commercial or industrial establishment.
  • noun. A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.
  • noun. A home workshop.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.
  • noun. The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.
  • intransitive verb. To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.
  • intransitive verb. To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.
  • intransitive verb. To visit or buy from (a particular store).
  • phrasal verb. To go from store to store in search of merchandise or bargains.
  • phrasal verb. To look for something, such as a better job.
  • phrasal verb. To offer (a large block of common stock, for example) for sale to various parties.
  • idiom. (talk shop) To talk about one's work.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To visit shops or stores for the purpose of purchasing or examining goods.
  • To shut up; put behind bars; imprison.
  • An obsolete preterit of shape.
  • noun. A booth or stall where wares were usually both made and displayed for sale.
  • noun. A building, or a room or suite of rooms, appropriated to the selling of wares at retail.
  • noun. [In the rural districts and smaller towns of the United States the term store takes almost exclusively the place of the British shop, but the latter word is in occasional and increasing use in this sense in large cities.
  • noun. A room or building in which the making, preparing, or repairing of any article is carried on, or in which any industry is pursued: as, a machine-shop; a repair-shop; a barber's shop; a carpenter's shop.
  • noun. Hence, figuratively The place where anything is made; the producing place or source.
  • noun. In glass-making, a team or set of workmen. See the quotation.
  • noun. One's own business, craft, calling, or profession; also, talk specifically relating to this: used in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. Compare to talk shop, below.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. of shape. Shaped.
  • intransitive verb. To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
  • noun. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
  • noun. A building in which mechanics or artisans work
  • noun. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
  • noun. A place where any industry is carried on;
  • noun. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
  • noun. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator.
  • noun. to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
  • noun. to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
  • noun. A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
  • noun. An automobile mechanic's workplace.
  • noun. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
  • noun. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
  • noun. an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
  • noun. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
  • verb. To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
  • verb. To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority; to "grass up".
  • verb. Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
  • interjection. Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give away information about somebody
  • verb. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  • noun. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
  • Word Usage
    "'And when I say a shop,' Hugo pursued, 'I mean a _shop_.'"
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    Bopp  Pop  atop  bop  chop  
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